Set of 6 Vintage Sandwich Labels - Little Flags

"They're from Australia — they're so hysterical," Patricia exclaims of this set of vintage sandwich markers. "They were for labelling sandwiches in a café — sandwiches I'd never make. I use them as cheese labels. Aren't they cute?" The set comes housed in its original fitted case, the markers themselves are slender metal skewers topped with small flag-shaped frames — a neat, open pennant design in silver-toned metal — into which ivory-coloured labels slot. Australian in origin, designed for the practical business of a sandwich counter. Arranged along a cheese board at a Paris dinner, or laid out on the table at a cooking class, they could be repurposed to identify a Comté, a Brie de Meaux, a chèvre with far more charm than anything purpose-made for the task today. A small, witty, entirely functional piece of mid-century commercial design that travels beautifully from café counter to the kind of table where the cheese course is taken seriously.