Antique 1920s-1930s K and R Countrymaid Sausage Label 🍎 NOS Hastings Nebraska Meat Packing Advertising, Navy and Orange Litho acme_brand_collectible NOS broom labels — labels

NOS broom labels — labels that never made it onto a handle — are rarer still

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in exactly the same way that a great deal of beloved mid-century American popular culture was produced

Lore passed down among collectors holds that certain Taylor Brothers tag designs — particularly the rarer shaped tags and the earlier rectangular styles with fully intact prongs — were sometimes saved by factory workers themselves

Antique 1920s-1930s K and R Countrymaid Sausage Label 🍎 NOS Hastings Nebraska Meat Packing Advertising, Navy and Orange Litho acme_brand_collectible NOS broom labels — labelsWhat was it like to walk into a Nebraska grocery in the years between the wars and see a sausage label this bold staring back at you from the counter? Before shrink wrap, before barcodes, before a single national brand had locked down the American icebox, a butcher shop or grocery in the high plains sold you sausage under a name that meant something local a name backed by a company you could practically see from Main Street. This label is a survivor