Vintage 1980s Lugano Grapes Crate Label 🍎 Fresno, CA, American Classic RIP 2021

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This 1980s Lugano grape crate label reads PACKED BY: TRI-BORO FRUIT COMPANY, INC., FRESNO, CA 93725 — Tri-Boro packed the grapes, and the sheet names no printer at all of Fresno, California. Measuring 13" × 4", it represents late‑period California grape packaging in an elongated strip format.

The label remains New Old Stock, unused and unmounted, with no wear. Color remains strong with clean edges and an intact surface.

Late‑period crate labels are valued for their clean graphic design and condition, particularly when preserved in unused state. This example is well suited for collectors of California agricultural history and crate label art.

🏷️ What Is Printed on This Label

Read off the sheet itself, verbatim — this is the label's own printed text, not a description of it:

• LUGANO ™
• California Grapes
• FOR QUALITY WINE
• PRODUCE OF U.S.A.
• PACKED BY:
• TRI-BORO FRUIT COMPANY, INC.
• FRESNO, CA 93725

FOR QUALITY WINE is printed on the sheet, directly under the product line. Those three words say what the crate was for, and no listing had quoted them.

The artwork explains the brand: a Mediterranean lakeside — a villa with red-tiled roofs and a bell tower among cypresses at the left, terraced vineyards and a village running back to blue-grey mountains, and a lateen-rigged boat with orange sails on the water at the centre, with a large cluster of dark purple grapes at the right.

The address carries a five-digit ZIP — FRESNO, CA 93725 — which is the only dating handle on the sheet (ZIP codes began July 1963) and is consistent with the 1980s dating. There is no net weight, no grade and no printed date.