Vintage Fruit Labels

Vintage

Fruit

Labels

Preserving the printed
art of the world's
orchards, one rare
crate label at a time.

[ 02 ] Explore The Archive

Trace a century of fruit trade through labels, tissue wraps and stickers from every growing region.

Rare orange crate label lithograph from the archive

Gathered from a century of orchards, printers& market crates.

WE DON'T JUST STORE LABELS
WE KEEP THEIR COUNTRIES ALIVE

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Spanish Valencia Label Sheets
03/05

Browse by country. Learn by label.

Chapter 03

An archivist sorting vintage fruit crate labels

[ 03 ] The Collector's Note

Two decades of markets, estate sales and dusty warehouses, one crate at a time.

Paper Orchards began as a single Jaffa orange wrap found folded inside a secondhand book. What followed was twenty years of tracking down printers, packers and pomological societies across four continents, preserving the fragile graphic history of the fruit trade before it disappears for good.

1,200+

Labels Catalogued

18

Countries Represented

1928-1974

Printing Range

[ 04 ] Inquiries

Have a label to share, or a country to suggest?