
al-Bahiya eye drops ad, al-Kashkul 1927
American University in Cairo, Rare Books and Special Collections Library. al-Kashkul. RBSCL believes this item is in the public domain.
The pattern
This still is filed under Pack as storefront.
Define
The pack is the store. On a shelf or a thumbnail, it must stop, name, and close without a clerk.
Mechanism
Shelf rhetoric. Hierarchy, claim, and proof live on the face. The first five centimeters do the campaign's job.
Verdict
The buy happens in a glance among competitors: grocery, pharmacy, app store icon.
Why it works
The headline 'this is al-Qatra al-Ajiba' and the boy's two pointing fingers aim at the same thing, the bottle and its wrapped box, so the reader learns the pack before any claim. Beside his hand runs a list of named eye complaints, from granular lids to weak sight from overwork, and the foot warns that any bottle without the embossed Salem Khalifa name and the two-keys mark is a fake. Recognition, the claim and a check against copies all sit on one small block.
The big idea
This is the one: a grinning boy points with both hands at the bottle and box, so the reader knows the genuine drops by sight and can spot a fake.
The offer
Al-Ajiba eye drops for granular lids, conjunctivitis, swollen lids, red eyes, watering and weak sight from overwork. Only bottles embossed with the Salem Khalifa laboratories name and the two-keys mark are genuine.
The proof
A gold medal at the most important international exhibitions, the claim of best drops in the world without rival, and the embossed name and two-keys mark on every genuine bottle.
Lines from the ad
هذه هي القطرة العجيبةThis is the wonderful drops
وهذه هي أفضل قطرة فى العالم بدون منازعAnd these are the best drops in the world without rival
احذروا التقليدBeware of imitations
Steal this when
Use it when copies of your product share the shelf and buyers need one physical mark they can check before they pay.
The emotion
Written to Trust. It makes the Say move.
The boy's two pointing fingers fix the bottle and wrapped box in memory, and the foot turns beware of imitations into a check: no embossed Salem Khalifa name and two-keys mark means a fake.
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