Vintage Ephemera

From the Collection of Cavallini & Co.

Brian Coleman

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781423633648
• eBook ISBN: 9781423633655
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

Cavallini is one of the best-known companies for high-quality gift and stationery products. They have been producing everything from calendars to wrapping papers for 25 years. Designs are based on ephemera from all walks of life—charming vintage post cards of the Eiffel Tower, centuries-old hand-colored engravings of birds and flowers, rare maps and prints, amusing early twentieth-century advertisements and trade materials.

From the hottest world travel destinations—Bon Voyage, San Francisco, New York, London, Italy and Paris—to popular themes such as Christmas, Flora and Fauna and Animals, this book will inspire anyone who enjoys art and design.

London

Various items from the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953.

C ivilized and proper tradition is the backbone of the English way of life. Attending the coronation of the queen would have been the highlight of any trip to London, and pamphlets, postcards, and even matchbooks carefully preserved memories of the occasion: a postcard of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, postmarked December 5, 1952, captures the iconic figure in her youth.

In its day, Trans World Airways was the finest way to fly. Lucky passengers received a handy booklet of travel tips for Britain in 1960. Luggage labels and receipts would have been from the very best hotels—the Regent Palace, Royal Court, Savoy, and Cumberland.

To navigate the streets of London, guidebooks and maps were a must, from a 1948 London trams and trolleys pamphlet to a collection of colorful maps of central London. And no trip to London would be complete without watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, as a 1955 children’s map of London reminds us.

Luggage label for Savoy Hotel, London, circa 1930.

Tuck’s Coronation postcard of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, postmarked December 5, 1952.

Coronation Scrap Book, 1953.

Coronation cover, postmarked June 3, 1953, from Paddington to Walthamstow, London, England.

London imagery includes map and guide, 20th century.

Travel guide of Britain for Trans World Airlines, 1960.

Leather satchel of various maps and guides of London, 20th century.

Hand-painted escutcheon labeled H. H. Brig Recruit, 1806. Luggage label for Cumberland Hotel, London, circa 1940.

Luggage label for Royal Court Hotel. London, circa 1938.

Invoice from Regent Palace Hotel, London, for Growney family, July 1932.

Coronation Arrangements with map for Coronation of King George VI, 1937.

ABC of London’s Transport trams and trolleybuses, London, 1948.

Collection of London correspondence ranging from 1846 to 1937.

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Table of contents

• Foreword
• The Story of Cavallini
• Animals
• Bon Voyage
• Christmas
• Curiosities
• Flora and Fauna
• Letters and Correspondence
• Maps
• Italy
• London
• Paris
• New York
• San Francisco