Antique Buyers Special Mince Meat Label 🍎 LARGE VERSION, Edgar Brick & Sons Crosswicks NJ, NOS 1910s vintage_food_advertising This is a mid-century novelty

This is a mid-century novelty badge — a piece of dime-store Americana produced in Japan during the postwar period and sold through variety stores and five-and-dime chains as a children's costume and play accessory

and in 1879 it moved into a proper factory — built by physically joining two local farmhouses together

exactly as a badge should

Radiating outward from the center is a starburst medallion

and for a collector who cares about Indianapolis specifically

Antique Buyers Special Mince Meat Label 🍎 LARGE VERSION, Edgar Brick & Sons Crosswicks NJ, NOS 1910s vintage_food_advertising This is a mid-century noveltyWhat do you do with a label that never got to do its job? There's something quietly moving about paper that was printed for work it never performed. This label never met a brush of paste, never wrapped itself around the curved staves of a fifty pound tub, never rode a delivery wagon down a Burlington County lane toward a grocer's shelf in the cold weeks before Thanksgiving. It was printed, stacked, and set aside and there it stayed, crisp and