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D S Crawford's of Edinburgh - Union Assorted Biscuits - box label designed by Robert Burns - 1924

In the mid-1920's Crawford's of Edinburgh (this being D.S. Crawford's the bakery shops) commissioned some fine packaging and labelling. This, for Union Assorted, makes play on the devices of the major dominions - Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well as the 'mother country'. It seems a strange cross between the "Empire Exhibtion" style (of 1924) and the Empire Marketing Board.

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Uploaded on August 17, 2009
Taken on August 16, 2009