Deutsche Edel-Stärke packaging

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Packaging for Deutsche Edel-Stärke (“German deluxe starch”), a fabric stiffener produced by Deutsche Edelstärkefabrik Heinrich Dehnert, featuring the Stärke-Tante (“Aunt Starch”). The fonts in use – two weights of Tannenberg (1933) and one of Signal (1931) – suggest a date in the 1930s.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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