Here are some charming images from fruit crate labels I have on a cd from an e-bay seller called ephemeraplus. I am very obliged to the seller for permission to display the images on this blog. I have included them as low resolution GIFs. (All Rights Reserved).
There were a lot of very interesting fruit crate labels in the 20th century and even earlier and they are very collectible and they certainly frame well.
We have a winter wonderland here in Toronto and I thought that it would be great to feature snow people with hats.
Notice how Snow boy (Snoboy) is a Snowman with a top hat whereas the snow girl (Snogirl) s a “real girl” . There is no such thing as a snow person. The girl is wearing a plain ski hat (toque). I did hear that a greeting card is using gender neutral snowpersons and you can send a e-greeting card with a snowwoman as well as a snowman – both done in snow. (I did not keep the link however) Too risque for the early 20th century perhaps? What next – mermen as well as mermaids? Why do you never see mermen anyway?
You can get some reasonably priced real labels at this label collector site.
From the vendor cited in the introduction.
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