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Size: 11 x 4.25 inches
🫘 1920s Wayne Brand Cut Refugee Beans Can Label, Edgett-Burnham Company, Newark, NY
An embossed 1920s can label from the Edgett-Burnham Company of Newark, New York, with a gold-framed portrait of General Anthony Wayne, the man Wayne County is named for, beside a dish of cut green beans.
📋 SPECIFICATIONS
- 🔹 Brand: Wayne Brand, trade mark registered in U.S. Patent Office
- 🔹 Product: Cut Refugee Beans, Fancy Quality, contents 1 lb. 3 oz.
- 🔹 Packer: Edgett-Burnham Company, Newark, New York, established 1863
- 🔹 Artwork: General Anthony Wayne portrait in a gilt frame; decorated dish of cut green beans
- 🔹 Printing: navy ground, gilt border, embossed (portrait and bowl show in relief on the back)
- 🔹 Size: 11 x 4 1/4 inches
- 🔹 Era: 1920s
🔎 CONDITION
A flat label, never applied to a can. The photographs show one example of this printing; every label is the same design.
📖 THE STORYThe cannery
Ezra Edgett started the Wayne County Preserving Company in 1863. It stood on the Erie Canal, and later the Barge Canal, on the west side of Newark, with the West Shore Railroad alongside. Edwin K. Burnham joined in 1889, and in 1908 the firm became the Edgett-Burnham Company, packing under the Faultless, Wayne, Winsom, West Shore, Burnham and Newark names; Perfection Foods ran the plant until 1973. Cornell University holds 80 cubic feet of its records, 1854 to 1930.
The general
Wayne County was formed in 1823 and named for Anthony Wayne (1745-1796), brigadier general at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Stony Point and the victor at Fallen Timbers in 1794. Legend says a soldier Wayne refused to spare from a flogging in the winter of 1781 shouted \"Anthony is mad!\" and the name stuck; the earliest printed telling historians have found dates to 1829.
The bean and the weight
Refugee, a green snap bean named for the French Huguenots, was sold by American seedsmen by 1822. The \"Contents 1 lb. 3 oz.\" line is the kind of statement the Gould Net Weight Amendment, signed March 3, 1913, required on food packages.
🎁 GOOD FOR
- Kitchen and pantry framing
- Can label and grocery advertising collections
- Wayne County, Newark and Erie Canal history
- Revolutionary War and Anthony Wayne collectors
