Antique Vintage 1930s Dixie Boy Crate Label 🍎 Waverly, FL, Adorable Child! j_bert_moritz_company The emblem printed on this

The emblem printed on this button is not a vague "policeman" design — it is a careful copy of the NYPD's uniform shoulder patch

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Through the summer it sold at a modest pace — a nice little seasonal item

that for most of the twentieth century the matchbook was one of the most effective

Antique Vintage 1930s Dixie Boy Crate Label 🍎 Waverly, FL, Adorable Child! j_bert_moritz_company The emblem printed on thisWhat could turn a plain wooden shipping crate into a tiny billboard bright enough to stop a produce buyer in his tracks? Long before refrigerated trucks, barcodes, and printed cardboard cartons, that job fell to paper labels just like this one pasted onto the end of a rough pine crate and asked to do a big job in a small space: announce whose fruit this was, where it came from, and why a buyer standing in a noisy produce house should reach for this