Casablanca "Vichy Water" Label

[PropsToHistory]

Found a production sample from "Casablanca" in the research library at Earl Hays Press today.

It's just doesn't end...

 

[joberg]

Great find for sure...apart from the many accents missing on the label

 

[Lightning]

Cool! I tried to make a replica of this years ago, but the central illustration was too low res from screenshots to make it work.

 

[Indy Magnoli]

Great find for sure...apart from the many accents missing on the label

Seems that all the French from EHP is missing the accents. The Letter of Transit has the same problem.

 

[Treadwell]

Great find for sure...apart from the many accents missing on the label

wartime shortages, donchaknow

 

[Indy Magnoli]

I stand corrected... I looked more closely at the Letter of Transit and it DOES have accents in the lowercase text... it's only missing on the text in ALL CAPS, which is not uncommon.

 

[eethan]

I stand corrected... I looked more closely at the Letter of Transit and it DOES have accents in the lowercase text... it's only missing on the text in ALL CAPS, which is not uncommon.

yes, we don't often put accents on the uppercase text in French, so this doesn't really shock me

 

[joberg]

I stand corrected... I looked more closely at the Letter of Transit and it DOES have accents in the lowercase text... it's only missing on the text in ALL CAPS, which is not uncommon.

Usually, "In the Olden Times", accents were on capital letters, especially on labels (Trademarks, Copyrights, etc). The circumflex accent has to be placed on, either the vowel A, E, I, O, U. So, if one accent had to be there, why not the others? That was the thinking at the time...nowadays the other accents don't show-up as much in a modern type...but for the circumflex

 

[Goncalo Mendes]

Only see this today, interesting, I had think to do a label, but the blurry central image prevented it so far. Was this sold anywhere?
Many thanks for sharing!

 

[Lightning]

None have been made to my knowledge, but I did identify the building in the picture. It's the Hotel Nassau in Wiesbaden Germany. Here's the photo the engraving was based on.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Here's another postcard of the hotel (with and without text) and a screenshot from the movie

 

[Goncalo Mendes]

I spent so many hours looking for a image similar to the label, found none ! And someone did it!!!! Oh well, i tought tht it had something to do with vichy french waters, but no!!!
Great find Lighting and Make Believe!
Just fantastic!

Many thanks for sharing!

 

[Lightning]

Full credit to Google Lens on this one. I just cropped the label down to the image and roughly adjusted the watermark to improve the analysis. And it still wasn't the first result (first page though).

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Here's the label I used some years ago to reproduce my bottle

Guess I'll try to replace it with something like this but with much better resolution