HOLIDAY CASE OF RARE VINTAGE CORORFILLED SELTZER BOTTLES

Description

We live in a disposable world. Virtually the same moment a new device is introduced to the marketplace, manufacturers
promote a new and better version coming out in the near future. Built in obsolescence has become the norm – but it wasn't always this way.
Back in depression era America, most people were happy to have almost any creature comfort available, and they used and reused most everything, and valued what they had. That was true of everything from diapers to soda pop. During that time period, and before, right up to the post-WWII era boom that ushered in a new and burgeoning more fickle middle class looking for new and better things, most were relatively content to own functional items that were meant to endure.
Before the advent of disposable plastic bottles and disposable aluminum cans, that clutter the landfill in the interest of convenience, decades
ago, soda and seltzer bottles were made of thick glass that were meant to be used and reused to satisfy the needs of consumers, not just for the moment, but for generations to follow.
We have assembled this rather unique collection of seltzer bottles from that era. They were created in the time when people had to return thick and heavy glass bottles of soda to the stores. For convenience, since about 1860, in America, there were
men and occasionally women who dispensed seltzer and soda from either places of business, sometimes known as package stores, or delivered to homes and businesses is these very heavy, but enjoyable products.
In the larger metropolitan areas seltzer bottles were generally delivered in
cases of 10, in a wooden box which weighed on average 70 pounds filled. Up until the 1950s , a few diehard older seltzer man still use horses and wagons, but generally deliveryman employed special trucks set up to contain 72 cases in the bay on the bottom, and 60 cases in returnable soda on top. Major soda companies like Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, Dr Pepper, etc., all use heavy returnable glass delivered in a wooden box. And these major soda companies ,on rare occasion , used seltzer bottles as a vessel to contain their proprietary ingredients. Seltzer bottles were used in every state in the union, and remarkable examples still survive – a testament to their enduring nature. Most seltzer bottles were the
more common round ones, but fancy and more ornate examples survive. They were larger in size and more heavy, and were generally sold in wooden sixpacks.
For your collecting pleasures, we have painstakingly assembled a few remarkable examples of these vintage bottles from the depression era.
These bottles offered with, and are packaged and contained within, an original heavy wooden hand made ten box of seltzer. This is a bonus, but at the same time the safest possible shipping container to ship them in.
This auction is for 10 randomly selected COLORFILLED  seltzer bottles.EIGHT WILL BE BLUE AND TWO WILL BE GREEN.
They will be cleaned up, and will have vintage pewter tops and glass tubes.
These bottles all date from the 1950's or before and are authentic and original.
My husband turned 70 last week and most were on the route when he was born.
Some may also date back to the era when his grandfather delivered them with his horse drawn cart in 1919.
Enjoy them.
ALSO INCLUDED ARE VARIOUS PHOTOS OF THE TV SHOWS AND VINTAGE PHOTOS THAT WAS AND ARE PART OF THE ROUTE.
WE HAVE NO REASON TO HAVE 7,000 BOTTLES IN THE HOUSE WHEN OTHERS CAN APPRECIATE THEM MORE.
I THINK MY HUSBAND IS CONTENT TO STILL BE ABLE TO DELIVER TO THE CUSTOMERS HE HAS AND HAS NO REAL INTEREST IN EXPANDING THE ROUTE, SO THEY ARE AVAILABLE-THOUGH I THINK HE'D PREFER TO KEEP THEM ALL.