Thursday, October 13, 2011

Collectible Seed Packets?


Indeed!

From a small piece on AbeBooks...

Today’s seed packets don’t compare. Seed packets have a long history crossing horticulture, retail and art as this Independent article shows.

Now here is a piece of seed packet trivia – did you know that the 1951 first edition of The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham came with a seed packet attached? Now that’s Mad Men-style marketing.

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