Antique Tri-X Brand Tomatoes Crate Label 🍅 — 1920s-40s Watsonville California, Ripe Tomato Graphic golden_age_hollywood That absence in the literature

That absence in the literature is part of what makes a physical survivor like this tag so valuable as a primary source — the object itself

— but on a label of this vintage

and how does it fit into standard framing options

That single fact puts a hard floor under the age of this piece

by every meaningful measure of the collector's world

Antique Tri-X Brand Tomatoes Crate Label 🍅 — 1920s-40s Watsonville California, Ripe Tomato Graphic golden_age_hollywood That absence in the literatureA Watsonville Family's Tomato Brand Some labels win you over with pure graphic confidence, and this one does but behind that confidence stands a real Pajaro Valley family firm. It is a Tri X Brand tomato label from the T. O. Tomasello Company of Watsonville, California. On the left, a bright green double ring encircles a bold monogram: "TRI" arched in yellow and fiery red over one enormous letter "X," with "Brand" tucked below a mark you could read