If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles
Posted 1 year ago
bmichel1
(1 item)
Was looking to purchase an antique crate to store wine in. Found this old KIST Bottling Company cola crate. Had know idea what I was buying but fits its purpose as a wine crate perfectly (holds 12 bottles of wine). The booth owner at the antique shop said she had it in her home for years and finally decided to part with it. Cost me $20.
I tried doing a little research on the KIST Company but did not find much. I saw someone else had a picture posted of a KIST crate with orange lettering. Read something about how it could be from early 1930s but I think it may be a little later.
Just looking to find out a little more about this old crate. Pretty cool piece for $20 and a great wine crate!
Any help is appreciated!
Soda Signs (non Coca-Cola)Coca-Cola may have invented modern advertising as we know it, but that does…
Crate LabelsFirst appearing in the United States during the 1880s, paper crate labels w…
http://www.google.ca/search?q=kist+cola&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=pzmiT_P1EIqW2QX_z9DiCA&biw=1440&bih=761&sei=tDmiT-PWMsej2QXHrcTjCA
Looks like kist was a big outfit good stuff.
My grandfather started this company in Flint Michigan around 1934. I have not seen anything related to Flint Kist Cola in years!