Antique Vintage 1930s Dixie Boy Crate Label 🍎 Waverly, FL, Adorable Child! j_bert_moritz_company Prohibition ephemera collectors are the

Prohibition ephemera collectors are the obvious home for this piece: people who understand the Volstead Act not as a footnote but as a defining event in American cultural

you feel the raised gold lettering under your fingertips

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

What makes this piece historically interesting is precisely that it was a commercial artifact of its moment — a product of the postwar dime store economy

Antique Vintage 1930s Dixie Boy Crate Label 🍎 Waverly, FL, Adorable Child! j_bert_moritz_company Prohibition ephemera collectors are theWhat 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