Can Label, Glendora Pumpkin, Embossed Lithograph, Original, NOS, Vintage

Before the grocery store. Before the supermarket. Before the can aisle existed at all — someone printed these by hand, one color at a time.

This is an original pumpkin can label — produced between 1925 and 1942 for the Glendora Products Company of Warren, Pennsylvania. It has never been used. Never wrapped a can. It is New Old Stock in excellent mint condition, acquired from the estate of one of the premier label dealers of all time.

The label is exceptional by any standard of the form, and exceptional even among that. Unlike virtually all other can labels, this one is heavily embossed — the paper itself is raised and textured, giving the composition physical dimension. Combined with the gold gilding applied over the stone lithography, the result is a label that does not lie flat in the hand or look flat on the wall. The pumpkin is large, orange, and authoritative. A wedge of pumpkin pie with a fork completes the composition with the kind of warm confidence only a company that really believed in their pumpkin would attempt. Glendora Products Company operated for nearly two decades and this label ran across that span. Getting extremely hard to find in any condition, let alone this. Three available.

Frame it as autumn or harvest decor, as a Halloween or Thanksgiving seasonal piece, or as one of the most tactilely remarkable labels in the can label collecting world. At 13.0 by 4.25 inches it suits a standard narrow frame — and the embossing means it rewards close inspection in a way that printed labels simply cannot.

A wonderful gift for a pumpkin enthusiast, a harvest decor collector, a Halloween or Thanksgiving decorator, a can label collector, or anyone who wants to hold something genuinely remarkable from American food industry history.

A note on can label collecting: Original lithographic can labels from this era are far scarcer than crate labels — produced in smaller quantities, more fragile, and less often preserved. NOS examples like this one represent the finest of what survives from American food industry history.

• Brand: Glendora Brand / Glendora Products Company, Warren, Pennsylvania
• Type: Pumpkin can label — embossed, gold-gilded stone lithograph
• Made in: USA
• Dated: produced 1925–1942
• Dimensions: 13.0" wide | 4.25" tall
• Condition: New Old Stock (NOS) — unused, excellent mint condition. Age-appropriate yellowing consistent with period. Please review all photos carefully — we cannot accept returns.
• Framing: Ideal for a narrow frame — ready to display. Embossing rewards close display.