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Mascara — Vin d'Algérie, 1925

A settler wine region's own name, sold as the whole brand.

What

A colonial-era Algerian wine label — reproduced on a period postcard — naming Mascara, a real Algerian wine-producing region, as its own selling point rather than any single named house.

Why

Algeria's French colonial wine industry did not survive independence in its settler-era form; this generic regional label is a dead mark by any measure, with no single producer to trace forward or back.

Notice

The absence of a named producer — this sells terroir and colony before it sells a brand, a different advertising logic than every named-house piece elsewhere in this collection.

“The region's wine trade is gone. The label is what is left to look at honestly.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution doesn't clear our floor for a physical print, so this piece is offered as a digital download only.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Country: Algeria
Format: Other
Piece published: Mascara vin d'Algérie — wine label, reproduced on postcard, 1925
Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-16. The only Africa-region candidate from the 2026-07-16 sweep that cleared direct-fetch confirmation — see DECISIONS.md for the honest accounting of the much larger set of leads that did not.

This brand was gone from the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.