Lily White Codfish box top from Slade Gorton & Co.

Lily White Codfish box top from Slade Gorton & Co.

Wooden Lily White Codfish box top made for Slade Gorton & Co. of Gloucester, Massachusetts circa 1940. Slade Gorton & Co. and its subsidiary Rocky Bay Fishing Company was a Gloucester and Boston, Massachusetts company, that at the time of this box top, that sold salted codfish.  Although Maine did not have a salt cod processing plant at this time, Maine-caught codfish would  have gone to Gloucester to be processed.  Salt cod was a popular dish for the workers at Jonesport Shipyard, where this box top was found.