Vintage Wooden Crate Simpkin and James Ltd Leicester

Simpkin & James 12 bottle vintage wooden crate.

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49cm wide 32 cm high 30 cm depth

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This is a particularly large, well made crate. It has a great patina and a great name. Please note wine not included.

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A Memory of Loughborough.

This was a wonderful delicatessen (although it would have described itself as "general provisions" or something like that, It had huge cheeses and whole sides of smoked pork and giant hams in the window. It had a unique smell - a mixture of spices, coffee, smoked meat and cheese. NO modern deli comes anywhere near it - apart possibly from Volpetti in Testaccio, Rome.