Antique Winner Crate Label 🐎 Harness Racing Horse & Sulky, Birds Nest VA eastern_playing_cards The label displays a heraldic

The label displays a heraldic coat of arms with the initials D and W on a quartered shield

Acid-free backing boards add rigidity

which speaks to both the quality of the original stock and the conditions in which it was stored

🪵 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

Single cut-but-unapplied labels are rarer than applied ones

Antique Winner Crate Label 🐎 Harness Racing Horse & Sulky, Birds Nest VA eastern_playing_cards The label displays a heraldicWhy 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