"La Puce" wrote in message
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JennyC wrote:

Can't help you Nicholas, but am intrigued as to what you need them for?

This is most intriguing indeed. Suttons seems to be the main sponsor
for Russia in bloom. So why Unwin's seeds packets? Perhaps to make some
comparison of some sorts. Interesting though - we're currently debating
whether we should go for an architects competition in St Petersburgh
next year. We're town twined with them. Our main problem is the age.
They want architects less than 35 years old ... (


On their website (from memory - 20 minutes ago anyway) they say
they've been taken over and they've re-designed the packets.

So that a new design team was brought in who immediately consigned
all the old designs and samples to the incinerator. (The idea
of them scouring rubbish dumps, simply doesn't bear thinking about)

Then a new marketing team was brought in, who immediately decided
on a "heritage range".

Ooops!

Actually the dates the O.P gave 2004/2005 are sufficiently late
you'd imagine, for some out of the way places to still have old
packets in stock. A search of the wholesaler's records might prove
fruitful. There are also dealers in out of date stock in all
sorts of fields, including packet seed, I believe.


michael adams

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