Bidspirit auction | Advertising Poster New Zealand Apples

Advertising Poster New Zealand Apples Orchard Food Education - Original vintage educational poster New Zealand Apples, featuring a small inset showing distance of New Zealand from London, and a detailed depiction of fruit growing and harvesting, including information on apple orchards, pruning, disking the soil with fertilisers, spraying apples to kill pests and fungi, thinning fruit to improve yield, picking apples at correct stage of ripeness and transferring from a canvas apron into boxes, grading the apples for size and quality, wrapping and packing in cases ready for export, and an illustration showing the shipping mark, size range, registered number of the orchard, quality, number of apples in the case and the various varieties of apples - Sturmer, Delicious, Jonathan, Dougherty, Statesman, Cox's Orange, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith. From the series Educational Productions Ltd Visual Aids. Produced for The New Zealand Apple & Pear Marketing Board. Horizontal. Good condition, creasing, tears, staining. Country of issue: UK, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 51x76, year of printing: 1950s.