This particular metal or tin serving tray from the Zipp’s Cherri-O brand is truly a beautiful tray with the robin drinking the delicious drink with a straw! I always found this depiction amusing as I can hardly imagine a bird using a straw to drink with, but some artist years ago thought of it and…
The lion is often regarded as the King of the jungle, and in this case, the King of Beverages, helping sell Dr. Pepper as the King of all soda pop soft drinks! What better connotation of positioning a product as the top choice, i.e. the King product? In this case, this tin sign has Dr.…
One of the most prolific and lost lasting images of the 1940-50’s era was the Smile Soda brand’s distinctive orange with a human like face on it. This logo was used on so many of the brand’s advertising signage, as shown here on this tin over carboard restaurant menu sign. This sign’s caption reads “Refresh…
The 7 Up Brand certainly did well with their advertising slogan, “It Likes You”, considering collectors today can find many variations of advertising products with this well known and steadfast slogan the brand incorporated. This particular signs also used another commonly used slogan from 7Up on the top, where the sign says “Fresh Up With…
The Whistle Soda Brand of Golden Orange Goodness was for years one of the better selling soft drinks in the United States. Invented in the 1920’s, the brand was synonymous with an elf or several elf characters featured on their advertising pieces. Most of the elves are shown working busily either hauling soda cases with…
This beautiful self-framed tin sign from the Charles Hire Root Beer Company in Philadelphia, PA is certainly an eye catcher. I love the golden colors, and the simplicity of two woman sitting together drinking from their straws out of cut glass like soda fountain style glasses. The artwork is marked and was done by Harry…
Dr. Swett’s Root Beer was a very well-known New England area soft drink, which achieved great success years ago. The brand itself started in the mid 1800’s and lasted over 100 years, proving the product has staying power. I love this particular stoneware syrup dispenser from the Dr. Swett brand. The dispenser has a notation…
The Moxie brand of soda was a very well-known soda brand which had a huge following in the Northeastern part of the United States for many years. This 1933 tin sign incorporated their commonly used slogan “distinctively different” in the advertisement. The use of the racing car was also something that collectors can find on…
GOLDEN ORANGEADE TIN SIGN The Golden Orangeade brand marketing campaign was not too hard to decide on. Why not use an orange shaped design for our signs to sell the orange flavored product? One thing is certain…the consumer easily recognized the product being sold from a distance with the distinctive shape and use of the…
I find it interesting today to learn how the Charles Hire Root Beer Company cleverly used a long standing marketing strategy of showing healthy children to sell their soda brand. The Hires Root beer brand was marketed as creating “strength, a rosy complexion, and beauty, while supplying the nerves and brain with a blood purifier”. …