Banana Label

Year of Issue: 

1932

Country: 

  • Cameroon

Material: 

  • Paper

Colors: 

  • White, Orange

Shape: 

  • Oval: Vertical, curved sides

Width: 

27

Height: 

32

Motif: 

  • Crown

Text on Label: 

AFC Deutsche KAMERUN-BANANEN

Catalog Entry: 

Author: 

Nick

Post date: 

May 2016

Last modified: 

Dec 2023

Comments

The link to the video is

Submitted by michael on

This brand has got now an own article where all the fantastic information from Nick is summarized.

@ Michael:

Submitted by Nick on

@ Michael:

Thank you very much for summarizing and neatly organizing all the infos related to the AFC brand in one article.

This is one of the AFC labels

Submitted by Martin S on

This is one of the AFC labels that actually were placed on fresh bananas ( Gros Michel and not Cavendish at that time )

Added a page from the german

Submitted by Martin S on

Added a page from the german doctoral thesis showing the two small labels.
In the chapter it is described how the Nazi government forced the companies to add the word „German“ clearly visible on their bananas.
The AFC started a huge campaign about „German Cameroon Bananas“.
It is interesting that at that time Cameroon was a British Colony.
There was another company using a label which only said „Kamerun“ and they also were forced to add the phrase „german product“ to it.