Antique Lime Fruit Cordial Label 🍋 1890s-1910s Gold Chromolithograph Art Nouveau Beverage Advertising tobacco_industry_artifact since it carries no date

since it carries no date or maker's mark

Age and authenticity are not abstract values here

The porcelain interior is smooth and clean

welcome — you have found a good one

This label never met a brush of paste

Antique Lime Fruit Cordial Label 🍋 1890s-1910s Gold Chromolithograph Art Nouveau Beverage Advertising tobacco_industry_artifact since it carries no dateWhat Did a Bottle of "Non Alcoholic" Cordial Have to Prove Back at the Turn of the Century? Picture a druggist's counter or a general store shelf somewhere between the 1890s and the 1910s rows of glass bottles, most wearing plain paper wrappers, and then one that catches the light. Gold. Actual metallic shimmer, layered under a deep red field shaped like a heart, with lettering that curls and swoops like it was lifted off a poster in Paris. That's the