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State Seal Brand Fancy Apples crate label – Antique Wall Art

State Seal Brand Fancy Apples crate label — historic image
State Seal Brand Fancy Apples crate label. Historic image from the Fruit & Vegetable Labels collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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State Seal Brand Fancy Apples crate label comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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State Seal Brand Fancy Apples crate label

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Lead with what sets this one apart: it is a crate label for State Seal brand fancy apples, a name that tells you the fruit was packed and marketed as a premium grade. Crate labels like this one were pasted onto the end of wooden shipping boxes so that buyers in distant cities could identify the grower or packer at a glance. Brands such as this relied on bright chromolithographed art, often showing orchards, landscapes or local symbols, to stand out on crowded produce-market shelves. Notice how the label combines a brand name, a grade and a seal-like emblem, a formula that many growers in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere used to build customer loyalty.

Original scan3,000 × 2,250 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
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