Land Palace Hotel Cigarette Case

Serial Number: CC0113

Status: Display

Description:
This Land Palace Hotel cigarette case memorabilia is made of tin metal with print on removable cover by S.A Richter & C. The Neapolitan publishing house of Richter & C. was founded in 1842 by Cristiano Richter, a Swiss typographer, to produce chromolitographs in Naples. In 1906 the artist Mario Borgoni (1869–1936) became Artistic Director of Richter & C., and during the first three decades of the twentieth century, the company produced a significant number of posters, postcards, and labels for Italian hotels and the Italian tourist industry. After ca. 1935, the company used the signature S. A. Richter & C., which was replaced a few years later by S. P. A. Richter & C. and used from just before the war until the last years of the company. Chromolithography is the process of making multi-color prints from lithography stones. When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrom is frequently used.