Buxom Melons Pin Up Girl Wood Crate Label Yuma Arizona Vintage Advertising
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Description and Condition
Original vintage Buxom Brand Melons produce crate label featuring a colorful pin-up girl illustration, bold three-dimensional lettering, and bright red and green graphics. Produced for F. H. Hogue Co. of Yuma, Arizona, and Firebaugh, California, this attractive example of mid-century American commercial advertising captures the playful style of classic fruit crate artwork.
The original paper label remains attached to a rustic wooden slat panel, offering an appealing piece of agricultural advertising history for collectors of vintage produce labels, pin-up art, and Americana.
The design combines mid-century commercial illustration, novelty advertising, and pin-up imagery.
Condition: Original vintage condition with considerable age-related wear. The paper label exhibits prominent tears, creases, surface abrasions, discoloration, and losses, including damage along the upper edge and through the lettering. The wooden backing displays scratches, marks, nail holes, and general wear. The label remains attached to the wooden panel. Please examine photographs carefully.
- Brand: Buxom Brand Melons
- Distributor: F. H. Hogue Co.
- Locations: Yuma, Arizona, and Firebaugh, California, USA
- Printer: Stecher-Traung, San Francisco, California, as marked
- Artist: Unidentified
- Art Period: Mid-20th-century American commercial advertising, estimated
- Design Style: Vintage pin-up, commercial illustration, Americana
- Medium: Color-printed produce crate label
- Material: Printed paper label mounted on wooden slats
- Subject: Melon advertising featuring a smiling pin-up girl in a blue outfit
- Colors: Red, cream, green, and blue
- Publication Date: Undated; likely mid-20th century
- Place of Origin: United States
- Frame: Rustic wooden crate-style panel, with visible nailed construction
- Matting: None
- Glass: None
- Image Size: Not provided
- Sheet Size: Not provided
- Overall Dimensions: Not provided
13 1/2" H x 13 1/4" W x 2 1/4" D
1lb 9oz
SKU 9759
The original paper label remains attached to a rustic wooden slat panel, offering an appealing piece of agricultural advertising history for collectors of vintage produce labels, pin-up art, and Americana.
The design combines mid-century commercial illustration, novelty advertising, and pin-up imagery.
Condition: Original vintage condition with considerable age-related wear. The paper label exhibits prominent tears, creases, surface abrasions, discoloration, and losses, including damage along the upper edge and through the lettering. The wooden backing displays scratches, marks, nail holes, and general wear. The label remains attached to the wooden panel. Please examine photographs carefully.
- Brand: Buxom Brand Melons
- Distributor: F. H. Hogue Co.
- Locations: Yuma, Arizona, and Firebaugh, California, USA
- Printer: Stecher-Traung, San Francisco, California, as marked
- Artist: Unidentified
- Art Period: Mid-20th-century American commercial advertising, estimated
- Design Style: Vintage pin-up, commercial illustration, Americana
- Medium: Color-printed produce crate label
- Material: Printed paper label mounted on wooden slats
- Subject: Melon advertising featuring a smiling pin-up girl in a blue outfit
- Colors: Red, cream, green, and blue
- Publication Date: Undated; likely mid-20th century
- Place of Origin: United States
- Frame: Rustic wooden crate-style panel, with visible nailed construction
- Matting: None
- Glass: None
- Image Size: Not provided
- Sheet Size: Not provided
- Overall Dimensions: Not provided
13 1/2" H x 13 1/4" W x 2 1/4" D
1lb 9oz
SKU 9759
Buxom Melons Pin Up Girl Wood Crate Label Yuma Arizona Vintage Advertising
$49.00