It's a great piece regardless of whether it's a pre-production piece. Well executed in my opinion, and definitely made many years ago (as in 40+)
I would expect a pre-production piece to have a real counter-part as a production. What I mean is that if there is a very similar production piece out there it would lead credibility to that thought.
I had a pepsi clock a couple weeks ago that was said to be pre-production where the center was a bottle cap and the face was a 50's era pepsi logo done as a cutout and painted. It came from the right area to possibly be that, but without documentation or anecdotal evidence at most I could say it's possible, and I could find no production version similar enough to say it was.
Thank you for your thoughts. I agree on their needing to be a post production piece similar to this one. Unless they scrapped the idea and went a different route. We've done that quite a few times in my occupation. Think my next route is to start buying some soda reference books/price guides.
The only kinda similar piece I know of is this one
Collect- Old Bakersfield CA. fence signs, Porcelain Dairy/Soda crate tags and shopping cart signs.
Cool piece... maybe a prop for a play... I would think a prototype for a display or pre-production piece they would have silk screened or maybe just printed out the artwork... As a graphic designer, this freehand painting, to me, doesn't have the "finished look" you would want to take into a company meeting to pitch an idea for. The artist back then would have/could have done a lot better freehanding the text/fonts than this. Still a great piece. Wonder if Royal Crown had a display like this.
Cool piece... maybe a prop for a play... I would think a prototype for a display or pre-production piece they would have silk screened or maybe just printed out the artwork... As a graphic designer, this freehand painting, to me, doesn't have the "finished look" you would want to take into a company meeting to pitch an idea for. The artist back then would have/could have done a lot better freehanding the text/fonts than this. Still a great piece. Wonder if Royal Crown had a display like this.
Collect- Old Bakersfield CA. fence signs, Porcelain Dairy/Soda crate tags and shopping cart signs.