HomeLibraryAdsMark as compressed claim
Library ad

Mark as compressed claim

Bayer Aspirin ad, al-Musawwar 1935

digitalcollections.aucegypt.edupublic-domain (university archive statement)Country: EgyptCollection: al-Musawwar

American University in Cairo, Rare Books and Special Collections Library. al-Musawwar. RBSCL believes this item is in the public domain.

The pattern

This still is filed under Mark as compressed claim.

Define

The mark itself is the sentence: a monogram, a seal, a device that already means the claim.

Mechanism

Compression. Years of use, or a very sharp first use, load the device so it can appear without copy.

Verdict

The mark is already loaded, or we will spend to load it

Read the pattern

Why it works

The drawings teach the check before the words do: one hand holds up a plain cross of two strokes, and the hand below points at the Bayer cross stamped on a round tablet. The copy repeats it in words, aspirin and not any preparation that resembles it, with the Bayer cross as the biggest guarantee the medicine will work. The mark becomes the one thing a buyer checks against copies.

The big idea

Take real aspirin, not a look-alike, and let the Bayer cross be the check: the ad names it the biggest guarantee that the medicine will work.

The offer

Bayer aspirin, marked with the Bayer cross on the tablet, chosen over any similar preparation.

The proof

The Bayer cross itself, presented as the biggest guarantee that the medicine works.

Lines from the ad

خصوصاً إذا كان العلاج من الأسبيرين

Especially if the treatment is aspirin

لا من أى مستحضر مشابه له!

And not some preparation that resembles it

وأن صليب باير هو أكبر ضمان لحسن تأثير الدواء!

And that the Bayer cross is the biggest guarantee the medicine will work

Steal this when

When look-alike products sell beside yours and the buyer needs one visible mark to check before paying.

The emotion

Written to Trust. It does neither clearly.

Draws a hand pointing at the Bayer cross on the tablet so the genuine pill can be checked, but only asserts the cross guarantees the medicine works, with no record or trial.

All ads

Library updates

If this library is useful, leave an email

We send new patterns, ads, and notes when we add them. Name and phone are optional.

Optional
Optional