The latest batch have been some of the more interesting ones yet.
From Shawl to Razor Back... I would love to hear how they came up with their names and branding.
That would be fascinating information, Bart. One thing about these labels is that most of these produce companies go way, way back in time, around the 1920s or so. Most of them are out of business and therefore it would be impossible to gain access to their company history or accounting firms. (As a young man, I once worked at a major orchard/worldwide shipper of pears and other fruit. Due to the nature of my job, I eventually had the run of the place. In particular, there was a storage room above one of the packing houses and it contained tons of file cabinets and other items of company history. When I wasn't busy, I would look through the records. It seemed to be mostly customer information, addresses and the like. I did come across a few items of interest, like a Christmas card from Franklin D. Roosevelt and wife, and a 1940's 78 rpm record of radio advertisements recorded by some announcer whose name was Peter Paul, or something like that. There were some unglued fruit packing labels, but I didn't come across any info as to who came up with the names.) My psychic sense shows me an image of a roomful of ad execs, poring over the pages of a thick, newspaper, like the New York Times...looking for ideas for names.