Some beautiful and very old Bernard Fürth's (and one ARTB label of Adalbert Scheinost) Austrian labels were added to my collection latly and I will be happy to show them to you out there

This one is very interesting one since it has the name of Bernard Fürth on it,
but it is probably from Sweden.
Label show 2 odd figures, Wajang maybe.

My small Fürth's Elephant collection. The blue long one and the big one
at the bottom, are for export to Italy.
The blue long one was used for wrapping old wooden matchbox.

These 3 labels are very colorful and well preserved for their age and were aimed to the Chinese market:

Very nice long label showing a Unicorn in some kind of a basket
 aimed to the Arabic market

Beautiful ARTB label made for the Croatian market

Another beautiful ARTB label - the Ship's drawing is the same as
the above label made for the Chinese market 

A Packet label made for the Greek market

A Packet label made for the Swedish market

The Smokers by Adalbert Vojtech Scheinost 

Some nice old labels from Sweden

Nice old Elephant labels

Hunting dogs double label

more than 100 years old labels

Wajang labels

Pretty women of the 19th

Japanes labels with a green Swastika background



WAJANG



Swastika

The swastika (Sanskrit: स्वस्तिक) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity. Swastikas have also been used in other various ancient civilizations around the world. It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, primarily as a tantric symbol to evoke 'shakti' or the sacred symbol of auspiciousness. The swastika is also a Chinese character used in East Asia representing eternity and Buddhism. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika 

Special old Swedish labels

Two sides of same matchboxes

WAJANG  label on the left

Beautiful artistic label

Ships labels

Old Swedish labels with Indian motifs

 

Wajang

Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre (literally "theatre" or sometimes "puppet"). When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by gamelan in Java, and by gender wayang in Bali.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayang