{"product_id":"antique-to-vintage-1920s-1950s-lindbergh-label-set-lone-eagle-crate-label-pair-spirit-of-st-louis-cigar-label","title":"Antique to Vintage 1920s-1950s Lindbergh Label Set ✈️ Lone Eagle Crate Label Pair, Spirit of St. Louis Cigar Label","description":"\u003ch2\u003e✈️ What Do a California Fruit Crate and a Detroit Nickel Cigar Have in Common? Charles Lindbergh, on Three Antique and Vintage Labels\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lone Eagle crate labels 13\" x 4\" each (two of them), Spirit of St. Louis cigar label 5\" x 2 1\/4\" ~ All unused, little to no wear on the pair, very slight corner softening on the cigar label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLook over these three labels and you won't find the name Lindbergh on any of them. They didn't need it. One says LONE EAGLE in towering green letters with a plane banking past and N-X-211 lettered on its wing. The other says Spirit of St. Louis in gold across a green globe, with a little New York on one side and a little Paris on the other. In 1927 nobody in America had to ask who that was. You get a pair of the Lone Eagle crate labels and one Spirit of St. Louis cigar label, and I put them together because within five months of the landing at Le Bourget, a fruit packer in California and a cigar maker in Detroit had both gone to work on the same idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🛩️ The Flight\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLindbergh lifted off from Roosevelt Field at 7:52 in the morning on May 20, 1927, crossed the Irish coast around three the next afternoon, and set down at Le Bourget outside Paris at 10:22 that night. Thirty-three and a half hours and about 3,600 miles, alone, with no radio, a wicker seat and five sandwiches, and it won him the $25,000 Orteig Prize. He was 25 years old. A crowd estimated at 150,000 broke through to reach him and tore strips of fabric off the plane for souvenirs. The newspapers called him Lucky Lindy. The name that lasted was the Lone Eagle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🍇 The Lone Eagle Pair\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo of these come to you together. LONE EAGLE runs corner to corner in huge dimensional capitals on a dark band that sweeps up the label like the wake of the plane, and at the upper right the plane itself tilts across a teal sky. That N-X-211 on its wing is the real registration of the Spirit of St. Louis. It was a California plane, too: Ryan Airlines of San Diego built it in 60 days for $10,580. My favorite part is that the paperwork trailed the plane. The official number assignment was mailed to Lindbergh on June 12, 1927, weeks after he had already flown it to Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Exeter Fruit Association of Tulare County registered LONE EAGLE with the Patent Office in 1968, for fresh deciduous fruits and fresh grapes, it gave October 13, 1927 as the date the name was first used, less than five months after the flight. So the brand goes back to the very year everybody was talking about, and it was still going when this label was printed in the 1950s. At 13 by 4 inches it's the size of a California grape lug label, and a 1973 auction catalog listed one among \"colorful grape lug labels\" with \"Lindbergh's plane at right.\" PRODUCE OF U.S.A. runs along the top, and A. Carlisle \u0026amp; Co., who billed themselves as printers, lithographers and stationers since 1852, put their name in the corner. In 1916 Carlisle took over what remained of Britton \u0026amp; Rey, whose prints recorded Gold Rush San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat yellow circle is the Blue Anchor of the California Fruit Exchange, incorporated May 1, 1901 by growers in the Placer County foothills. George H. Cutter suggested an anchor as its symbol, the Exchange first used it in 1904, and at its peak it represented about 1,000 growers of tree fruits and table grapes. Exeter itself sits on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, between Visalia and Sequoia National Park, named by a Southern Pacific man after his hometown in England, and today 31 murals on its downtown walls tell the town's history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🚬 The Spirit of St. Louis Cigar Label\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the outer end label from a nickel cigar box. The inner lid of the same box carried the airplane, the flight dates and the maker's name, and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum holds that matching lid label: \"FIRST FLIGHT - NEW YORK TO PARIS - MAY 20-21, 1927 - 33 1\/2 HOURS,\" and the price, five cents. The company was the Mazer-Cressman Cigar Co. of Detroit, which filed the trademark for the design in July 1927, just weeks after the landing. This label carries REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. at the lower left and AMERICAN LITHOGRAPHIC CO., N.Y. U.S.A. at the lower right, so it was printed after that filing, sometime into the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere's why a Detroit cigar maker wasn't as much of a reach as it looks. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, and his mother, Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, taught chemistry at the city's Cass Technical High School. Jacob Mazer and his brother Henry built their business through a factory fire in 1911 and another in 1924, merged that same year with Allen R. Cressman's Sons of Philadelphia, and that October 1,500 employees opened a new five-story plant at 5031 Grandy Street designed by Albert Kahn, the architect behind Ford's River Rouge. In February 1937 about 400 of its workers, mostly Polish women, walked out in a sit-down strike and won union recognition and a raise. By that summer the plant had been bought and closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e💃 Lindy Hops the Atlantic\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis name ended up on far more than fruit and cigars. Within weeks it was on hundreds of products, licensed and not. The story goes that the Lindy Hop, the swing dance born in Harlem, got its name from him too: at a dance marathon at Rockland Palace in 1928, a spectator is said to have asked George \"Shorty\" Snowden what he was doing, and Snowden answered that he was doing the Lindy, after the headline \"Lindy Hops the Atlantic.\" A fruit brand, a nickel cigar and a dance craze, all christened by one flight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrate labels are a reminder of a bygone era, and the amazing lithography process is unparalleled even to this day. Hang the long pair over a doorway with the little cigar label between them, in a hangar office, a kitchen or a den. There is no new press run coming. When the last of these are hanging in collections and galleries, they will be very hard to track down for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curated Gift Sets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68147902775528,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/hero_c44a1738-23da-4823-81bb-88326b0e39f1.jpg?v=1794166776","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/antique-to-vintage-1920s-1950s-lindbergh-label-set-lone-eagle-crate-label-pair-spirit-of-st-louis-cigar-label","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}