Description: 1 Lb. Wrapped Coffee Size Box Kitchen Queen ~ GenuineRoasted Coffee Wrapper1900's Wrapper ~ Gold Gilded Ink Exceptional vintage coffee box wrapper label. Over 100 years old! Traditional One Pound size box. Distinctive color graphics with generous use of gold gilded ink sparkling with actual gold flake & gold dust! This photo shows the label on the standard, empty one pound, 6 ½ by 4 ¼ by 2 ¼ inch coffee sized package. We wrap the original, century old label onto an empty box, the size of the old full ones they did a century ago. Beautiful display. Packaged by John Blaul's Sons Co. Burlington, Iowa. 4B Trademark. This distinctive coffee box label is from the "Turn of the Century" 1900's coffee roaster and food wholesaler, John Blaul's Sons Co. Burlington and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They were an 1800's and early 1900's regional Coffee Roaster and grocery distributor, who brought in groceries in large quantities on barges on the Mississippi River and processed & repackaged goods in their own brand boxes and distributed them from the Train Rail Head Towns, all along Iowa. They supplied many of the general stores and sundries in rail towns growing to the west. There were dozens of railhead towns on the West side of the Mississippi River with the large stock yards & Railhead on the banks of the Mississippi River. They were all going west. Large food and sundry distributors, and warehouses were located there. They got their coffee beans, etc. from barges on the Mississippi River, Roasted the coffee beans, dried the fruit, etc. They packed it all in gunny sacks, barrels, etc. and sent retailing help, like signs, consumer size bags & boxes. Smaller grocers would buy the preground like "Kitchen Queen". Many had their own hand crank coffee grinders and would buy barrels and gunny sacks of roasted beans to grind to order and put into a fancy box or bag provided by the food processor. The same coffee would sell under different brands. Some consumers had their own smaller kitchen sized Coffee Bean Grinders and ground their own coffee beans fresh every morning. They were packaged it in smaller wholesale cartons and sent by train Out West, to Ma & Pa grocers and General Stores, for settlers and railroad towns in the expanding frontier. This Original, Genuine Wrapper is wrapped around a standard sized, empty 1 LB. box the size of the old one. Remarkably beautiful Americana item in Perfect Unused Condition. Ideal for display. We pack it securely and mail it to you First Class U.S. Postal. Price . . $9.85 4140
Price: 9.85 USD
Location: Pecatonica, Illinois
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Color: Gold
Date of Creation: 1900
Original/Reproduction: Original
