Talking about us
In this page will be filed articles and reviews about our collection. I invite all collectors with informations about it to forward them to me.
22 May 1998
The newspaper “Il Giorno” issued an article titled “It’s only question of a label – Curious hobby: collecting fruit labels and wrappers“. Read the article (not available now).
Summer 1998
The magazine “Cronaca Vera” issued an article of the journalist Debora Baglioni titled “Only me I have a collection like this – Curious hobby of a pensioner“. Read the article (not available now).
April 2001
The magazine “Il Mercatino del Collezionista“, published by Golden Italia Editrice, issued my article titled Etichettando the first collection that make well to the health. Read the article (not available now).
21 December 2001
An austrian large gazette OO Nachrichten issued an article about the collection of Günther Hofmair. Read the article (not available now).
20 June 2002
IOL News talked about our collection in the page Strange but web in an article titled Bananalandia. Read the article.
15 September 2002
The magazine “Collezionare” published my new artilce made up by 2 pages titled “TUTTIFRUTTI History and curiosities on Fruit Labels Collection“. Read the article.
14 October 2002
Radio Tau, a transmitter of the North Italy, is broadcast a 3 minutes interview to me about fruit labels collection. Listen the interview in MP3 (2,86 MB – italian only).
22 October 2002
Etichettando is linked in the page What we can do today in the net – Daily advices in collaboration with the Internet page and downskirts of the Corriere della Sera, receiving 644 visits in one day!
19 November 2002
The Christian Science Monitor pubblished an article title “Stuck on stickers – Collectors latch onto colorful fruit-and-vegetable labels by Mark M. Sheehan. Read the article.
28 January 2003
The site Idea Hobby by De Agostini pubblishes an article titled “Curioddities” (i.e. curiosities and oddities) and talks about Etichettando and the E.W.F.! Read the article.
3 June 2004
The english daily newspaper Guardian has published an article titled “Books of labels are the fruit of a strange hobby” and it has talked about Etichettando. Read the article.
28 January 2007
The free press newspaper by Rome E Polis contacted me to get information about the collection and published an article about the fruit labels’ collection, titled Love for label, here’s the new mania.
25 February 2007
In the magazine La Domenica di Repubblica it has been published an article wrote by the writer Andrea Camilleri “Una Sicilia di carta per vestire i limoni” and another one by Ambra Somaschini “Così nasce la prima pubblicità“. Read the articles (the link open a pdf, articles on pages 6 and 7).
22 March 2007
The website of RAI Dispenser – automatic distributor of daily incentives publish an articole about the fruit labels’ colelction, talking about Etichettando and EWF, titled “FROM CHIQUITA TO MELINDA: FRUIT STICKERS BECOME MANIA“. Read the article.
12 April 2007
The website Fresh Plaza publish an article about Etichettando, titled “From the labels’ pioneers to the most curious inventions, Etichettando: the web site for the collection of the fruit labels“. Read the article.
July 2010
On the number 6 of Rapallo Notizie-Mare nostrum, page 39 Rosanna Antola wrote the article: “Collections and outskirts: fruit wrappers and such” with two pictures.
