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Hall & Duck Trust.   Seed Packet Collection 1​

The Trust houses many other collections of equal importance covering historic areas in Horticulture, Groundsmanship and Greenkeeping. Here are some excellent examples.

Advertisement for Webb seeds, for the Brewers exhibition 1897. Showing the full power of sales from every angle "Barley grown on a farm owned by HRH The Prince of Wales, Sandringham and sold to the highest bidder, Messrs Dewar Whiskey distillers". This poster is a rare surviving example

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A collection of seed packets from France circa 1920

A collection of seed packets from France circa 1930

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Dobbie & Sons Edinburgh seed packet from 1930

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R A Taylor seed merchants Kings Lynn established 1770 seed packet for their Onion Premier

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W A Rudd & Co Ltd, Seedsmen, Bishopsgate, London, seed packet from the 1920's

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​R A Taylor seed merchants Kings Lynn

for their Wallflowers

Dunns Gillingham Dorset 1960's, seed packet showing damage caused by vermin. Only 3d!

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R A Taylor Bird seed

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Pennell & Sons Ltd, Lincoln Garden Swede seed packet 1940

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Pennell & Sons Ltd. Turnip seed packet from the 1940's

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