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Advertising thermometers were a popular item between the 1920s and 1960s, and were distributed by a great number of brands. Common antique and vintage thermometers include the round ones resembling a clock face, with a hand pointing to the temperature, and the vertical rectangular or cigar-shaped thermometers with a mercury meter in the middle.
Some advertising thermometers, such as those made by soda companies, often took the shape of a bottle. Common advertising thermometer brands include Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mail Pouch Tobacco, Hills Bros. Coffee, John Deere, Pabst, Sunbeam Bread, Nesbitt's, Exide Batteries, Royal Crown Cola, and Hire's Root Beer.
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