Funny how the best collection of US potlids ever resides down under. Or Deown Undah...thank goodness you don't have many earthquakes round your part of the world. Otherwise those babies would be shake and bake.
Oh, okay. A friend of mine found a round one in the creek several years ago. Sold it on ebay, I believe. Only pot lid I've seen around these parts in my 40+ years of collecting. I guess nobody brushed their teeth around here back then.
From Wikipedia:
In June 1974, one of the first UPC scanner, made by NCR Corp. (which was then called National Cash Register Co), was installed at Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio. On June 26,...
Where did you get the date 1983? I'm pretty certain they were used in stores well before then. Here's an issue of Mad Magazine complaining about being forced to include a UPC in 1978, which I...
That is such a cool find! Never seen one like that before.
It wasn't the mold, it was the bottle itself. They used something, I'm guessing sand blasting, to remove the logo from the bottle...
Yeah I can understand that. It's funny because until recently I had little interest in those bottles because they never held the same nostalgic feeling. I have a few of them, a C-Plus Orange and a...
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