Typology of Old German Pharmaceutical Packaging. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...

We saw these at a market in Munich last year, they were super expensive but the stall holder let us take pics :-)

Huh, it's fascinating to me how sparse serifs are and how they always seem to be paired with italics. I wonder how common of a design trend that was at the time.

It's interesting that some designs have barely changed like "Hansaplast"! Exciting page - I saved it straight away :-)

Hansaplast sticks to a very similar design scheme even today: