A pair of Sutton Seeds “Useful Grasses & Useless Grasses” wall mounted retailers display cases or samplers.

Each glazed oak case bearing the Royal appointment “Sutton & Sons, seedsmen to his majesty the King, Reading, England” on card to the bottom third of the display, twenty four grasses are shown above with the Matching twenty four seed cases below.

Both cases retains there original drop down sun blinds.

A highly original pair of these increasingly difficult to find samplers.

Early 20th century.

H:54 W:86 D:4 CM.

H:21.2 W:33.8 D:1.5 INCHES.

As well as inventing the paper seed packet, Suttons led the world in the cultivation, supply, marketing and distribution of bulbs and seeds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Price is for the pair.