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This 7-UP ad was in my inlaw's service station in the 1940's, I have seen only one other, but expect there were thousands made. I recovered it from an out building in the 60's and spent several years finding a bottle that had a picture of the girl on the side. It is glass molded to look like melting ice. It is about 8.5 inches tall, about 8 inches wide and 7 inches front to back and weighs about 8 lbs. The glass is about 1/4 inch thick, hollow inside.
Soda Signs (non Coca-Cola)Coca-Cola may have invented modern advertising as we know it, but that does…