Antique Winner Crate Label 🐎 Harness Racing Horse & Sulky, Birds Nest VA eastern_playing_cards Christmas Specials

Christmas Specials

This is not a reproduction

🪵 Shadow box with regional context: Mount the tag at center in a shallow shadow box alongside a vintage Tennessee map clipping centered on Sumner County and a small label noting Gallatin and the 1947 era — a self-contained piece of Middle Tennessee tobacco history

the card is marked simply: JAPAN

Antique Winner Crate Label 🐎 Harness Racing Horse & Sulky, Birds Nest VA eastern_playing_cards Christmas SpecialsWhy would a Virginia produce packer put a racehorse on the side of a crate? Picture the packing shed at Birds Nest, Virginia on an autumn morning, somewhere in the long stretch of years when the Eastern Shore fed half the cities on the Eastern Seaboard. Crates of potatoes, cabbage, and tomatoes are stacked to the rafters, waiting for the next train north, and every single one needs a label pasted to its end something bright enough to catch a produce