I believe I was the original owner of all the gold labels. I worked for Chiquita in Cincinnati at their world headquarters in the early 2000's. When the graphic designer was let go, I took all the surplus labels he had. These were test labels that Chiquita was considering at one time, but never moved forward with. As far as I know, it was never used on bananas.

I've now deleted Gerrie's label, but saved the picture from her catalog and added it here.

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It does indeed look like the same one. My photo is taken from an angle. I'll try to get a better shot from a different perspective; a straight-on view doesn't capture the color well.

I've also moved it to the "White Ring" category. I think this label is identical to Gerrie's C83.1, so I suggest deleting hers, as not many collectors have it yet. Is that OK, or can anyone see a difference?

The scanner doesn't render the colors well. So, I attached a photo.

Very small ®

Big R

Without PLU

New due to the ®. All other variants have got a ™.
Fantastic.

A Plantain with #4234? Is this possible?

They forgot the ®

Size of the label: 23x26mm. large ®

The "P" has a different "belly", and larger ®

Christine (my wife): "Großer Wurf". Christine loves variants. She said, she would have found this variant, Michael not ...
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