[Printed Matter] — Cardboard label dispenser "Columbus".
Sorau [Zary], Rauert & Pittius, ca. 1930. A round cardboard label-dispenser (diameter 9.0 cm), printed on both sides, containing a string of rectangular pink, printed labels, gummed, and perforated. = A beautifully preserved cardboard dispenser for gummed labels for bottles containing Arnica montana tincture, a herbal medicine. Apparently, the labels were made for a drugstore named Kirsten, located in the town of Raguhn (now Raguhn-Jeßnitz) in Saxony-Anhalt (eastern Germany). Rauert and Pittius was a printing and publishing firm in the Prussian town of Sorau, now Zary, in Poland, just over 200 KM east of Raguhn. The firm was founded in 1811 by the German book printer Johann Daniel Rauert (1787-1847), and dissolved in 1945, just prior to the whole town and surroundings being ceded to Poland. Except for some tiny signs of use in perfect condition. Extremely rare, if not unique, in particular in this fine state.
