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This business had roots in the Armanino lithographic printing business in Genoa, which among other things produced collectable playing cards and later substantial books. The first example is from a series illustrating all the Popes published by L Ferloni, Rome. These appeared in book form as an album, one with a complete set of 264 of cards is currently on sale at Ebay. The example here is an English version. As there is nowhere to write on on the image side they must have been aimed mostly at people who wanted to keep them.
In 1905 the firm became S.A.I.G.A. – Società Anonima Industrie Arti Grafiche ed affini già Fratelli Armanino, but it almost immediately fell on hard times. It was liquidated in 1917-18. Its assets passed to Adolfo Barabino and Francesco Graeve, who founded la Società Anonima Industrie Grafiche ed Affini Barabino & Graeve. They kept the mark S.A.I.G.A. Barabino and Graeve had already run a litho printing business in Geneva since 1909.
Barabino & Graeve went on to produce collectable travel posters and hotel labels but much of its output was brochures and other commercial work. It printed postcards with its name on, but increasing labelled them S.A.I.G.A. già Barabino & Graeve and eventually just S.A.I.G.A. The graphic form of the logo may be post-WW2.
According to www.misterkappa.it the company archive includes executive sketches, posters, small prints, lithographic stones, color installations on glass plates, etc. which today constitute the main body of the Historical Archive of Advertising – Corigraf Genova.
S.A.I.G.A., and Barabino & Graeve, Genova
This business had roots in the Armanino lithographic printing business in Genoa, which among other things produced collectable playing cards and later substantial books. The first example is from a series illustrating all the Popes published by L Ferloni, Rome. These appeared in book form as an album, one with a complete set of 264 of cards is currently on sale at Ebay. The example here is an English version. As there is nowhere to write on on the image side they must have been aimed mostly at people who wanted to keep them.
In 1905 the firm became S.A.I.G.A. – Società Anonima Industrie Arti Grafiche ed affini già Fratelli Armanino, but it almost immediately fell on hard times. It was liquidated in 1917-18. Its assets passed to Adolfo Barabino and Francesco Graeve, who founded la Società Anonima Industrie Grafiche ed Affini Barabino & Graeve. They kept the mark S.A.I.G.A. Barabino and Graeve had already run a litho printing business in Geneva since 1909.
Barabino & Graeve went on to produce collectable travel posters and hotel labels but much of its output was brochures and other commercial work. It printed postcards with its name on, but increasing labelled them S.A.I.G.A. già Barabino & Graeve and eventually just S.A.I.G.A. The graphic form of the logo may be post-WW2.
According to www.misterkappa.it the company archive includes executive sketches, posters, small prints, lithographic stones, color installations on glass plates, etc. which today constitute the main body of the Historical Archive of Advertising – Corigraf Genova.
