Crate Label, WIN Brand, California Emperor Grapes, Racing Flagman, NOS, Vintage 1940s

An AAA Contest Board badge on this label's flagman dates it precisely — the sanctioning body dissolved in 1955 after the Le Mans disaster, so every example still bearing that badge predates the sport's most consequential year.

• Brand: WIN Brand / W. D. Winton & Son, Ivanhoe, California
• Produce: Grapes (Emperor)
• Origin: Ivanhoe, California, USA
• Materials: Paper, lithograph
• Dimensions: 13.0" wide × 4.0" tall
• Era: Vintage, circa 1940s–early 1950s (pre-1955)
• Condition: New Old Stock (NOS) — unused, very good vintage condition, light stippling on left side, water stain visible on reverse only. Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.

The word WIN fills the composition in big yellow letters trailing motion lines behind it, a stadium crowd pressing forward to the right, and a flagman holding the black and white checkered flag with an AAA Contest Board badge on his sleeve.

Frame it as motorsport history or mid-century Americana — a strong statement in a garage, study, or game room.

Every Indianapolis 500 run during the AAA Contest Board era — 1904 to 1955 — was sanctioned under that same badge, meaning this label captures a real slice of American motor racing's earliest professional era, printed for a grape crate.

A wonderful gift for a motorsport enthusiast, a vintage racing collector, or an Indianapolis 500 historian.