The first category: original development category.
1. Proofreading: It is a "cigarette label" draft jointly designed by cigarette factories and printing houses for cigarette brands, and it is not printed on the computer. Before the popularization of computers, we mainly relied on manual drawing and manual plate making. With the development of the times, the design and plate making of cigarette labels are gradually completed by computers, resulting in exquisite cigarette labels produced in modern times, which are mainly collected and preserved by professionals and insiders.
2. Proofing labels: Now all kinds of cigarette labels collected by everyone are actually evolved from proofing labels. Proofing labels are several or hundreds of cigarette labels specially made before the establishment of a certain brand, which are specially for the leaders of tobacco production enterprises to review and decide. The birth and market production of "sample" cigarette labels are strictly selected from dozens to hundreds of proofing labels, and the last cigarette label will form a formal product. The author thinks that its collection value is higher than the "standard" in production, because the collection pays attention to "things are rare". Moreover, the proofing label can tell you the process of making a cigarette label, which has certain collection value and research significance. Proofing traces are mainly collected and preserved by professionals and insiders.
The second category: the early category before and after liberation.
1, old standard: mostly in pinyin and foreign languages, and the patterns mainly reflect the social background and culture at that time. Most of these items are collected through price purchase and rarely through exchange.
2. Early labels: mainly soft labels, which refer to tobacco labels from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the appearance of tobacco labels in China. It is characterized by many traditional Chinese characters, including public-private partnerships and local state-owned ones.
3. China cigarette label: It means that the name of the factory on the cigarette case is only printed with "Produced by China Tobacco Industry Company", and about 6 1 cigarette factories in China use this name at the same time. From 1963, China Tobacco Industry Company was established until 1968, when the company was cancelled. There are about 1000 kinds of cigarette labels, which are loved by collectors because they are the products of special periods.
4. Cultural Revolution labels: mainly soft labels, 1966 to 1975 produced during the Cultural Revolution. It is characterized by quotations from the chairman, inscriptions, revolutionary slogans and cigarette labels with specific patterns during the Cultural Revolution.
5, three non-standards: soft standards are mostly. The cigarette label has no tar content, no R and no filter tip. The production date is 1975 to the mid-1980s.
6. Unpacking (referring to the dismantled cigarette factory product label): 1986 The original cigarette factory product label ordered by China Tobacco Corporation to close, stop, merge and transfer before.
The third category: tobacco labels in production.
1, soft label: mainly used for low-grade cigarettes, beautifully designed, horizontal and vertical (vertical), but some high-grade and middle-grade cigarettes will also be used to retain their own style.
2. Label: The main products are 20, 16 and 12 cigarette packs with sticks.
3. Series labels: refers to a series of cigarette labels with the same name and brand, different patterns, different characters, samples and colors.
4. Barcode label: A cigarette label printed with commodity bar code. It mainly displays registration marks, which represent countries and industries respectively, such as 690 in China and 1028 in tobacco industry. The last five digits of the code are the manufacturer's number. Generally, each manufacturer has 200 numbers, and the last code has anti-counterfeiting function.
5. Coke label: Now cigarette products must be printed with words such as tar content, high, medium and low content, and the tar content is printed on the side of the cigarette label. The use of the focus sign also symbolizes the beginning of international integration.
6. Label collocation: three or more different designs and brands are label collocation, commonly known as 3★ 1 or 10★ 1 etc. There are also many local scenery and people. It is very difficult for ordinary collectors to collect such objects.
7. Color registration: refers to cigarette labels with the same trademark name, text and pattern but different colors, and there are at least three color registration labels.
8. Commemorative logo: It is mainly developed and designed temporarily by cigarette production enterprises to celebrate and commemorate meaningful events, which has certain commemorative significance, such as factory celebration, sports meeting, National Day, return of Hong Kong and Macao, etc. This standard generally has a small output and a limited sales range.
The fourth category: "fever sign" or "fun sign"
Mainly to collect cigarette labels boldly designed and printed by fans and cigarette label associations to commemorate the establishment or celebration of the association for fans' collection.
Category 5: cigarette cards, sealing strips and advertising pictures.
1. Cigarette card: Also called picture, it is an artistic picture that manufacturers put into cigarette cases for publicity. There are people, paintings, scenery, etc.
2. Sealing strip: mainly used for sealing cigarette packets and sealing both ends of sealing strip, mostly used for soft box packaging.
3. Cigarette advertising picture: It has a long history. Since human beings began to produce cigarettes, advertising pictures have been published as publicity.
Category VI: Smoking Accessories.
1. Pipeline category: In the pipeline family, quality, material and shape are obvious signs of pipeline status and grade. Therefore, among the pipes made in past dynasties, there are many exquisite pipes and exquisite materials, which gradually highlight the unique art collection value.
2. Lighters: In addition to a wide variety of lighters on the market, cigarette factories have also begun to customize gift lighters for promotional activities, including high, medium and low grades, which have become collectors' collections.
3. Snuff bottles and ashtrays: Exquisite snuff bottles have become precious collections of collectors all over the world. The ashtray is made of pure gold, pure silver, crystal, coloured glaze, glass and other special materials.
4. Tobacco gifts: Manufacturers began to design and produce gifts with factory names and brands. [Edit this paragraph] The value of cigarette labels has been 100 years. While expanding and deepening its practical value, it also profoundly embodies its characteristics of the times.
From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, cigarette labels were mostly made by foreign businessmen, feudalists, bureaucrats or national capitalists, and the patterns were unconventional and elegant. This kind of theme has a long history, and the amount of survival is small, so the price is relatively high, generally between 100 yuan and 500 yuan.
In the early days of the People's Republic of China, cigarette labels (factory names) were divided into state-owned, local state-owned and public-private partnerships, with a wide variety and poor paper quality, which should generally be between 20 yuan and 50 yuan. During this period, there was also an auction of "Resisting US Aggression and Aid Korea", because most of the products were given to Chinese people's Volunteer Army in North Korea, which was rarely circulated in China, so it was very rare, and the auction price was generally above 100 yuan.
"Cultural Revolution" is a special topic that collectors pay special attention to. This topic is very popular because of its red sky, supreme quotations, eight styles and strong times, and the price is quite high, generally around 20 yuan 100.
After the reform and opening up, cigarette labels have become more brilliant and more rampant. In addition to state-owned and collective factories, individual manufacturers have also introduced their own vehicles. Once, high-quality products and inferior products coexisted, and fish and pearls were locked together. The "three noes" label has no registered trademark, tar content, cigarette type (also known as taste, such as flue-cured tobacco type, mixed type, miscellaneous gas type, cigar type, etc. ), and the epigram of "smoking is harmful to health" and the cigarette label of bar code are even more important. At present, the price of this kind of cigarette label is relatively low, which should be below 5 yuan.
It is worth mentioning that during the revolutionary war, the cigarette labels produced in the liberated areas were extremely limited in the world due to environmental reasons, and it was hard to find, hard to find, and even more impossible to find. Courage and insight collectors generally would not let go of such cigarette labels.