INCREDIBLE RED PAINTED MOOSE HEAD PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND SELTZER BOTTLE

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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.
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.
OFFERED TODAY IS A VINTAGE SELTZER BOTTLE FROM  MOOSE HEAD BEVERAGES INCO OF PROVIDENCE R.I. THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL AND VERY OLD SELTZER BOTTLE FROM PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND, WHICH IS THAT STATE'S CAPITAL. I'VE NEVER MADE IT TO THAT CITY BUT I ENJOY THE SHOW CAUGHT IN PROVIDENCE. DON'T ASK ME WHY BECAUSE I HATE GETTING PARKING TICKETS ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M DELIVERING IN MANHATTAN.
THIS BEAUTIFUL RED PAINTED BOTTLE HAS A DEPOSIT LISTED OF 25 CENTS AND AN EXTREMELY EARLY PHONE NUMBER OF GASPEE 8538, WHICH MUST BE THE 1930'S OR BEFORE. THE PAINTING OF A MOOSE IS DRAMATIC AND LOVELY. I'VE OWNED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SELTZER BOTTLES, BUT HAVE ONLY HAD ONE OF THESE.
I ONCE HAD IT IN MY VAN ON A DAY WHEN I WAS DELIVERING TO THE SHOW "THE VIEW" WHICH I WENT TO FOR 20 YEARS  EVERY TWO WEEKS . I HAD LOTS OF FUN MEETING CELEBRITIES SINCE I WAS OFTEN IN THE DRESSING ROOM AREAS, AND TREATED LIKE CREW. MERIDETH VEIRA WAS MY FRIENDS AND A CO-HOST THEN, AND SHE ALSO HOSTED THE PYRAMID SHOW.ONE DAY SHE MENTIONED SHE WAS FROM PROVIDENCE SO I BROUGHT IT TO THE STUDIO THE NEXT TIME TO GIVE TO HER AS A PRESENT, BUT SHE WAS OFF SOMEWHERE DOING A TV SPECIAL, SO I TOOK IT HOME. IT'S BEEN ON MY SHELF FOR 20 YEARS. DURING THAT TIME NO LESS THAN 7 TV CREWS CAME TO MY HOUSE TO DO A STORY ON MY ROUTE AND IT WAS PROBABLY IN ONE ON THEM. SINCE I NO LONGER ENCOURAGE THE MEDIA IN THIS PANDEMIC, IT'S TIME FOR IT TO GO TO A HOME WHERE IT WON'T BE CROWDED IN BY LOTS OF OTHER BOTTLES.
THESE ARE IN FABULOUS CONDITION CONSIDERING THEIR AGE AND THAT THEY'VE BEEN USED FOR GENERATIONS. WHEN YOU DELIVER THESE BOTTLES IN WOODEN CASES OF TEN WEIGHING 70 POUNDS THEY DO GET HANDLED ROUGHLY.
AND THEY DO SHOW THEIR SIGNS OF AGE BUT THAT ONLY ADDS TO THEIR AUTHENTICITY AND DESIRABILITY..
THESE BOTTLES HAVE BEEN CLEANED THOUGHLY BY MY WIFE AND THESE ARE HER AUCTIONS.
THEY ARE MEANT FOR DISPLAY AND DECORATION..
THESE ARE VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES AND WERE IN USE TILL RECENTLY..THEY ALL HAVE A LONG AND MAGNIFIENT HISTORY OF PLEASING MANY FOR GENERATIONS. THEY ARE TIME-WORN WHICH ONLY ADDS TO THEIR AUTHENTICITY AND SENSE OF CONTINUITY WITH THE PAST FOR THOSE WHO LOOK FOR THINGS THAT ARE MEANT TO BE USED FOR A MOMENT THEN DISPOSED OF JUST AS QUICKLY.
THANK YOU.
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