Mark Wickens is a Canadian based collector of olive oil labels. His online gallery collection can be found here and here as well as an article, by him, on the subject. He reports that he has 1300 olive oil labels in his collection, with the oldest he has seen dating from around 1860 and which was used by the supplier to Napoleon IV. The earliest Italian label he has seen dates from 1899 though they would have been widely in use there and elsewhere. the olive blog recalls an extensive collection of South Australian olive oil labels from the 1800s but it could not be readily googled.
Readers of the olive blog are invited to post a comment if they have seen an older label or have sites with historic labels.
Comments