Fake 75

For some while now restaurants and shops have been enhancing their décor with wooden boxes, originally real wooden boxes, perhaps once used for packaging fruit or vegetables, usually with the name of the grower stencilled in large black letters. Several such boxes have been noticed in this series.

Over time, the motif has been gradually debased, and now the meerest suggestion of such a box suffices. No need to go the whole hog any more.

So, our fine local Costcutter has taken a leaf out of the book of Waitrose and installed wooden boxes to carry part of its selection of wine.

Snap not up to its usual standard as the phone crashed while I was trying to be discrete, leaving files called thumbs at half a megabyte each rather than a jpg at five or six. But hopefully good enough to give the idea. Middle top back.

PS: readers are invited to try to trace the same sort of decline in the decorative motifs used in neo-classical buildings, some of which date back to the days when Greek temples had beamed wooden roofs.

Reference 1: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2014/06/collecting.html. Not even scored as a fake.

Reference 2: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=dawlish+fake. An early variation on the theme. See end of post.