Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit

Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit

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Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit
  • Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit
  • Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit
  • Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit
  • Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit
Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit

Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit

$7.00

Vintage 1950s William Tell Brand Apples Crate Label R.N. Barber & Co. Waynesville NC Chromolithograph Fruit

Who Grew William Tell Apples? 🏹 A Sure Shot From an Orchard That Is Gone: William Tell Brand Apples of Waynesville, N.C. The orchard that shipped William Tell apples was foreclosed in 1988, cut into 170 parcels, and later placed on the federal Superfund list. What is left of the brand is paper like this: a 1950s crate label from R.N. Barber & Co. of Waynesville, North Carolina, where a bearded Swiss marksman sights down a crossbow at a barefoot boy with an apple balanced on his head. It borrowed a legend set in 1307 to promise "A Sure Shot to Finest Quality," and it rode on crates from a Haywood County mountainside that once carried 30,000 bearing apple trees.

  • Size: 9" x 8"
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