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Def a COOL 7-up sign, John!

Thanks, I'll probably have the same sign coming next week along with a sprite porcelain sign (the 7up will be in double so it will be availaible for sale)

I found this united farmers milk bottle in a flea market this morning

I've been lucky enough to find 2 more milk bottles from Longview Dairy's. The Highland is a display bottle from the early 30s. The Standard Dairy has a great image of their processing plant on the bottle ....

BOB. WHAT DID YOU PAY FOR THOSE? YOU CAN PM ME IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SAY HERE. JUST CURIOUS AND WANTED TO COMPARE TO SIMILAR LOCAL BOTTLES HERE. THANKS!

No problem, the Highland display bottle cost me approx $48 with shipping... Much less than the seller (and I) thought it would go for....

The Standard Dairy bottle went for approx $25 and included free shipping... The same bottle went for over $85 with shipping just a month before....

Because of the small amounts of the winning bids on both bottles, I almost feel at times as if "I stole" the bottles... LOL (but I'm not giving them back)

On Thursday, I stopped by the local Historical Society at the Longview Public Library to talk to a couple of the volunteers. None of them had seen a Highland Display bottle before (most hadn't heard of the Dairy)... In fact only 1 of the 5 was old enough to have any knowledge of the Highland Dairy....

A few more pieces of local history saved......

Nucky,

An old farmer recently showed me a slightly older Maryland dairy bottle similar to that, but rounded on the bottom instead of squared. He used to have a dairy in the days before pasturization. On one side it had the name of the dairy and on the other side, "Safe Milk For Babies." The swollen top part is where the cream rose to, and housewives had a special spoon that looked like a ladle, that fit just right in the narrow part. The 'spoon' wasn't for scooping, but to hold in place to pour out the cream while keeping the rest of the milk from pouring out as well. I had read about them in the local paper just a few days before he brought it in so it was cool to hold one in my hand. I was familiar with the shapes of Bobs nice collection, but this was different. Pretty interesting shape.

Nicole
p.s. Bob if you did have one of these in your collection, I didn't notice it because it was before I read the article and it wasn't on my radar.

Thanks for the details about the bottle

I received today a porcelain sign for sprite from the Netherlands, If I remember there 3 versions of the sprite button

I have the Coca-Cola version of that sign....mine is 22" has the 3 tabs, but somehow yours looks smaller(?).

it's the exact same size of the coke button with the 3 tabs, I placed it over the coke one and it fits the same, those were produced by langcat bussum, it's amazing of all signs produced in europe for american products

by the way sprite never produced many signs, I know around 20 different signs until 1970

I need to find a Netherlands supply I love those signs

Opps we lost Nucky's milk bottle picture...here are a few pictures of one similar to the one I held Saturday:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/wash...ndaR_story.html

And here is one of the articles about the early dairies (sp?) in and around Washington:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fond...oCMR_story.html

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cool signs, are you planning on selling them ?
the link of the pic of the milk bottle was broken (photobucket is free but don't allow too many visits...) so here is another link to it : http://www.collectorsweekly.com/assets/stories/WEWLHTPfGNZ.fz9bKBKn7Q.jpg

Bought a 36" porcelain Coke Button.

Here is one i just picked up.