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All three items were bought at flea markets. The Abbotts milk cap, the abbotts bottle and the harbison create. This milk and Sealtest were the big milk companpies back in the late fifties and early sixties in the Phildelphia area. This create would have been used to delivery milk to the stores. Back then we would have milk delivered to the house. This service faded out like others the latest, mail delivered on saturdays. Check out my other things that were common in the Philadelphia area back in the day.
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