Horticultural Bldg, GREEK SEC, Free Currants: 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Description

Exhibit Handout for Currants Given by
Greece in Horticultural Building at the 1893 WCE
- 6.25
x 3.75 inches
buff sheet
with blue print in English and graphic of the
Greek seal
(front shown). N.P.:
Greece
, 1893. Single sheet printed both sides. Back explains in English how Greece is the only producer of (
Zante Black Corinth
) small black grapes used in baking and puddings the world over. And their exhibit gives a
free sample
to visitors and also
recipes
.
-
Supplemental Historical Information:
Their exhibit in
Horticultural Building
is listed in "The Official Catalog" of exhibitors in the
Greek Section
(shown and digitally highlighted). Notice that there were no less than
7 currant exhibitors from Greece
as it was only in 1901 that California was finally able to produce marketable Zante grapes and raisins as they require careful care and are subject to diseases. My guess is that the "Collective Producers" of Vostira, #47, put this ad out at the WCE as the rest are individuals or private companies.
Britain
is particularly fond of the black currants in cooking today (Hot Cross Buns with Black currants shown). This folded sheet states that there is a
free sample
and since I can't find on this sheet where the recipes were attached, that the recipes were included in the bag with the ad? Only a guess. Any way, there are no recipes as stated in the last line of text description of the unique small Greek black grape and raisin first mentioned by Pliny the historian in 79 AD. But it's still a
fine promotiona
l from Greece at the WCE!
- Condition:
Poor; lacking recipes:
Perfect blue print and Greek logo graphic (shown). Bends, folds and chips (shown). Back explains Greece is the only world producer, and announces free currant samples and recipes (shown).
**Buyer
pays
.95 First Class Package shipping in a stiff package with tracking number.