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BABY TURTLE Brand purple wine grapes, D. and D. Fruit Co., Modesto, California; full length blond baby takes a ride on an unsuspecting turtle; this is the older variety of this label.
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BLUEBIRD Red Emperor grapes, Wileman Bros. and Elliott, Cutler, California; swallow tailed Blue Bird wings his way on an important mission; Louis Roesch Lithographer, San Francisco.
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BRUNETTE brand Produce, Costa and Co., Ripon, California; beautiful young Italian maiden presents her luscious bounty; in this case three varieties of wine grapes; ornate scarf, red beaded necklace and peasant dress complete this appealing picture.
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CALIFORNIA BEAUTY For Quality Wines, Michael D. Ursini, Modesto, California; filled wine glass logo, four voluptuous young maidens frolic around and in a large wooden wine grape press; two Italian girls, one Basque and one Spanish with an unseen Portuguese companion lying behind the press; last years pressing has already been sampled and found to be an excellent vintage.
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CARL'S Special, wine grapes, M. Stingone Fruit Company, Lodi, California; real photo of cute kid in stripped shirt; large bunch of purple grapes pictured; Crocker Lithograph.
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CLEARCUT Selected California Tomatoes, Santa Clara Valley Fruit and Produce Co., San Jose; Two large fruits on a black background.
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MARSHALL Sweet Potatoes; grown and packed by O. A. Marshall, Main Office, Bloomington, California; A wonderful caricature of my friend Oscar Marshall who presented myself and my son with a sampling of his 1942 vintage yam labels in the year 1987; Oscar is shown here as a fully outfitted Western Marshal, from his cowboy boots to his ten gallon hat, his official badge gleams in the sun; Thanks to a wonderful man with a great sense of humor! Police, cop, sheriff, law enforcement.
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O'CAPRO California Alicante Bouschet Grapes, Capro, Nicholas Pepe, Bronx, N.Y., Two elegant bunches of wine grapes border dramatic high mountain plateau scene dominated by Bighorn mountain goat, ram; high snowy mountains dominate background.
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OLD MISSION Sunkist table grapes, Redbanks Fruit Co., Redbanks, California, U.S.A., Monks view mission bells in excellent stone lithograph rendering by Schmidt Litho., Fresno; Blush colored grapes and leaves enclose circa 1915 Sunkist Logo.
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PATRICIA Tomatoes, Santa Clara Valley Fruit and Produce, San Jose, California; Fruits and Vegetables, 28 pounds when packed; lovely Egyptian girl in full period makeup wears elaborate golden headdress complete with pink feather plume and water bird icon.
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