7 up Swimsuit from Quebec - french/english version

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another 7 up from Quebec has appeared on ebay , this one a swimsuit from the town of Megantic Quebec , which I don't think would of been that big back then

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http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Rare-1940s-7...663100?hash=item2a7fe9ebbc:g:59YAAOSwpkFY7sdG
 

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Cool! I think that Lac-Megantic would have been about the same size then as it is now, but it's the only sizable town for a fairly wide area so it makes sense that they would have a bottling plant.
 

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I was at a bottle show the other day and found something that I never expected to find, a 7Up bottle marked from Ottawa! And it was the post-swimsuit label as well, so not super old. I have no idea why they're so rare, but this one was in fairly bad shape and priced at $35 so I had to pass on it. I'll definitely keep an eye out for another one in the future though.
 

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I was at a bottle show the other day and found something that I never expected to find, a 7Up bottle marked from Ottawa! And it was the post-swimsuit label as well, so not super old. I have no idea why they're so rare, but this one was in fairly bad shape and priced at $35 so I had to pass on it. I'll definitely keep an eye out for another one in the future though.

it doesn't surprise me an Ottawa 7 up exists , there is a listing in book for 7 up Ottawa and some smaller cities in Ontario have 7 up bottles . but I agree at $35 it seems overpriced , I doubt it be worth that much unless the buyer was crazy about 7 up and from Ottawa

recently I saw a 7 up from "Fort William " or thunder bay and I think they wanted $6 for it but it was in bad shape , an old swimsuit version similar condition to the one I recently dug up
 

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Oh yeah I never doubted that there was a 7Up plant in Ottawa but I always assumed they only used generic bottles, since Ottawa is full of generic ones and that's the only marked one I've ever seen. I saw Montreal 7 Ups in Ottawa pretty regularly, but the only Ottawa one I ever saw was in Montreal, ironically enough. I'm not 100% sure it wasn't from Ottawa, Illinois now that I think about it, but that just seems unlikely.

The prices just seemed crazy at the show I was at, is it just me or have bottle prices just skyrocketed in the last two or three years? It was not that long ago that I could get lots of nice local bottles for five bucks or less, now everyone wants $15 for an ACL Canada Dry bottle or a chipped non-local druggist. I got a couple nice ones for decent prices but I really had to search for them.
 

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Oh yeah I never doubted that there was a 7Up plant in Ottawa but I always assumed they only used generic bottles, since Ottawa is full of generic ones and that's the only marked one I've ever seen. I saw Montreal 7 Ups in Ottawa pretty regularly, but the only Ottawa one I ever saw was in Montreal, ironically enough. I'm not 100% sure it wasn't from Ottawa, Illinois now that I think about it, but that just seems unlikely.

The prices just seemed crazy at the show I was at, is it just me or have bottle prices just skyrocketed in the last two or three years? It was not that long ago that I could get lots of nice local bottles for five bucks or less, now everyone wants $15 for an ACL Canada Dry bottle or a chipped non-local druggist. I got a couple nice ones for decent prices but I really had to search for them.


the listing in the book is for Seven up Ottawa Ltd and Seven up Bottling co Ottawa Ltd , so that should of been the name used on back of the bottle you saw


I'm not sure if prices have gone up or not , I've been thru a couple different antique malls recently and did notice a lot of over priced bottles or cheap bottles for $5/$6 dollars that were in really horrible condition , I was surprised the one antique mall even allowed the vendor to bring them in to sell . there wasn't a lot of what I would consider really good bottles for sale

the most crazy price I saw was a vendor asking $20 for common /.plain coca cola's from the 50's/60's , I'd say maybe there worth $5 or less
 

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I can't remember if it had Ltd or not. I feel like it did, which would make it definitely Canadian. I should have taken a picture.

I don't know who's buying this stuff. A couple years back I was selling bottles at a flea market and had trouble selling anything for a dollar a piece. Though I guess for an antique mall it can sit in there for ages and no one will really care, so maybe no one is buying.
 

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