PICNIC BASKETS
FRAMES FOR GUARDS' BEARSKINS Britain has been selling ."0,000 dollars' worth of picni:' baskets a year, mainly to the United States, Among the makers of them there Is a trailing concern which claims Lo be the oldest in the British Em pire. It was turned out of London as an "inflammable" trade after the Great Fire of and it still uses millions of osiers cut from willow trees in the green. Before the war it built the wicker frames for the bearskins then worn by the Guards. And it made the i'irst picnic basket. In the countries where picnics are still possible a basket fetches anything from 20s to £."H). America prefers the simpler type, and of these one which reproduces in basket iorm a country labourer's beer bag has been popular in both hemispheres-
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 190, 8 December 1941, Page 2
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137PICNIC BASKETS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 190, 8 December 1941, Page 2
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