Vintage Roberts Jersey Dairy Creamery Butter Box 🐄 NOS 1930s–40s Utica, NY Pastoral Print American Made novelty_pin_1950s It means this tin was

It means this tin was manufactured and warehoused as inventory rather than sold and used at a pharmacy counter in its own time

🍳 Group it with other antique kitchen ephemera — seed packet labels

A broom label

pressed flat and preserved as New Old Stock

NOS condition on a piece of this age — a minimum of roughly ninety years

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