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Pat Jacobsen's "Fruit Crate Labels (dot) Com"
 Proprietor, Author, Webmaster Thanks for visiting ebay and fruitcratelabels.com In the early years of active label hunting by hobbyists along the Pacific Coast (1975-90), many significant accumulations, collections and hidden caches were found. Many of these labels were filtered out into the collecting public years ago and have now proven to be extraordinarily rare. Commonly, only two or three copies were found to begin with and no one has seen another one since. These are labels you probably will find listed in this Guide, but, you probably won't easily find one for sale. It is also true that many "medium- priced," moderately-available labels are becoming smaller in supply, thus, prices are "inching- up." As the hobby becomes more popular, stocks of some collectible material will continue to steadily dwindle further and further. This has proven especially true of the older, rarer material. If the hobby ever really "caught-on," like it did for, say "pet-rocks" and other pop-art items, label stocks would "dry- up overnight!" But, don't be discouraged. Labels of all kinds are still popping-up all the time, and current interest in collecting, although growing, hasn't yet overtaken supplies. Fortunately for everyone, there are still stacks of colorful, original labels left all around the country. These examples, which have been salvaged from packing houses over the years, are often beautiful, inexpensive and available to collectors. Many dealers now offer them on a mail-order basis, and swap-meets up and down the coast are open to everyone who wants to attend. Label collectors today are conservationists, culturalists and custodians of a sort. They preserve, invest in, and appreciate this art form in a way never before practiced on such a wide scale. Once the known supply of labels is dispersed, it will be up to each of us to see that they are passed on to posterity. After all, we are lucky these labels still exist at all. About Pat Jacobsen, historian Thomas P. "Pat" Jacobsen is a historian who began collecting labels and other agricultural advertising in August 1978, and has worked continuously toward the preservation of this unique art-form ever since. He has travelled extensively along the Pacific Coast of America and throughout The West in search of labels, artifacts and information on all aspects of agricultural advertising and the western printing industry. His travels have taken him as far as Spain, Italy, Throughout western Europe, The Netherlands, Tasmania, Australia, across Canada and throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Florida and many American states seeking labels and the history of their use worldwide, and has built the largest collection of such labels currently known. He has spent nearly twenty-three years researching each agricultural region along the Pacific Coast from Salmon Arm, British Columbia to Arizona, collecting fruit and vegetable crate labels, can labels and agricultural advertising posters and recording the histories of their use. He has developed networks of thousands of collectors and interested institutions around the world and put what he has learned into exhibits, lectures, slide-shows, state and county fairs, over 100 magazine and newspaper articles (including EBAY Magazine -- July 2000), numerous books, seven television documentaries & public t.v. projects, videos, CD-ROMs and other presentations (including his 100+ page Web site http://www.fruitcratelabels.com ). He has appeared on television and national radio (including the CBS weekend news) and has consulted on a number of documentary film productions. His labels appear in Paramount's "Odd Couple II" movie. Pat has also been an avid seller and buyer on ebay for years and offers outstanding rarities to collectors. He has also documented in detail the histories of more than 60 Pacific Coast and western American printing and lithographic firms, hundreds of produce exporters and shippers, packing associations, marketing organizations and independent growers. He also spent many years researching the history of San Francisco's numerous lithographic companies, seeking retirees and artists who created the labels, with a special interest in the West's largest lithographer, Schmidt Lithograph Company. An historian and preservationist first, and label salesman second, he has been developing his collections, a legacy he intends to leave to posterity in one or more historical institutions. Pat received his historical training at Diablo Valley College and "on the road." A thirty-year professional concert musician by trade, he is a lead vocalist, bassist and producer with thirty years of experience, several CDs under his belt, and is co-founder of extremeaudio.com, an Internet music company. Pat appears on numerous records, CDs and videos. Pat has spent his non-performing hours tracking labels in "the wild." Favorite Links The Label Man Tony Hyman's Tobacciana Site Ada Fitzsimmons Paper Pile Querterly |
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