The question we had though was more basic. Why is the box of fruit described as 4/5 of a bushel? Why not the whole bushel? Was the California government taking a tithe or the church, or was it the carrying charge?
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
OLD CALIFORNIA
We have a number of these boxes lying around the place. They were originally filled with pears of all things.
Naturally, there is an online market for this sort of fruit crate. Probably now worth more empty then when they were shipped filled with fruit. I wonder how many of them are authentic and how many were made by guys like my friend in southern California who would make just about anything along these lines in Mexico for peanuts and then turn around and sell it on ebay for a small fortune. As I recall, his big stock in trade was ship plaques for ships scrapped long ago. He'd make a mold, pour the bronze or brass in Mexico, age and distress the wooden plaque and sell them for 10 times what it cost to make. He had a mortgage in Coronado that needed paying.
The question we had though was more basic. Why is the box of fruit described as 4/5 of a bushel? Why not the whole bushel? Was the California government taking a tithe or the church, or was it the carrying charge?
The question we had though was more basic. Why is the box of fruit described as 4/5 of a bushel? Why not the whole bushel? Was the California government taking a tithe or the church, or was it the carrying charge?
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4 comments:
The 4/5 question is interesting and **I** have no answer. Nice label, though.
I took the picture and sent it to my brother who has a house in Kelseyville. He wanted the thing so badly he was working out how to get me to ship it to him. I think he liked the picture...
We can probably rustle one up for your brother, don't you think?
If not there's always ebay. :)
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