Primitive Country Store Counter Top Seed Boxes

Each year, new seed packets would be displayed on store counters in a box like this.

Many still have their original graphics glued to the wooden surfaces. 

Rush Park Seed Co

There were several prominent companies in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Wooden Seed Box from Weston Helmer Company

Graphic inside Lid of Box and Outside

 These boxes ranged in size, some were small like a jewelry box and others larger (24 x 13 x6.5).  Others only 9 inches long or smaller.

Smaller D.M. Ferry & Co with Brass Hinges

Often they were made of oak and may have brass hinges or handles. They have tongue in grove construction.

One is marked "NRA We do our part." 

"The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was one of a constellation of federal agencies that made up President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program to help Americans recover from the Great Depression. Established in 1933 in an effort to spur industrial recovery, the NRA sought to use government power to restrain competition and end the downward cycle of wage cuts and price reductions, without abolishing the free market. The administration asked businesses, labor, and consumers to help write new codes for hour limits, minimum wages, and production standards. To encourage voluntary adoption of these new codes, participating businesses were allowed to display a blue eagle logo, and consumers were urged to spend money only where the symbol was displayed." http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6697

Boxes like these can be found in Woolbright's River City Antique Mall in Princeton, Wisconsin, booth PPR.

Call  920-295-3475 to arrange for purchase and shipment.