Possible Mountain Dew promotional item?

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From the Acronym Finder I like ...

TP = Total Production (With the number of jugs produced next to it).

Bob

 

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ORIGINAL: druggistnut

Looks to be TP 849.

I am sure of the TP but struggled with the rest.

Bill
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Upon closer examination (zoom - color change - etc) my best guess is (even number) ...

TP 840

 

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There is a possibility the Mountain Dew jug is a fake/copycat/fantasy item, (and might not even be related to Mt. Dew soda pop) but until that is confirmed one way or another, I can't help but wonder if there is a connection between the 1960s Mountain Dew calendar shown below, created by illustrator Paul Webb, and the artwork on the West Virginia jug?

Paul Webb (1902-?) American cartoonist and illustrator born in Towanda, PA. Paul Webb grew up wanting to be an illustrator and greatly admiring the work of Wallace Morgan. He took his art training in the 1920s at the School of Industrial Arts and the Academy of Fine Art, both in Philadelphia. While in school he won scholarships that allowed him two summer-long trips to wander throughout Europe. His art training was interrupted by a time at home caring for his ill mother. During this time he began freelancing magazine cartoons to the old Life, the New Yorker, Judge, Collier’s, and <College Humor magazines Once The Mountain Boys, which Webb had created in 1934, became popular, the feature took all the cartoonist’s time.

In the 1930s, Esquire syndicated the feature to newspapers. Two Collections of The Mountain Boys were published in that period: Comin’ Around the Mountain (1939) and Keep ‘em Flying (1941). In the mid-1960s, Paul Webb briefly drew the hillbillies for Columbia Features Syndicate. A paperback collection of The Mountain Boys was published at the time.

Paul Webb is now semi-retired. He devotes part of his time to giving humorous after-dinner speeches on the banquet circuit; his topic: "A Few Ill-Chosen Words About Nothing in Particular."

 

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I have been researching the phrase "That fresh dew - do tell" and suspect it might derive from either the works of William Shakespeare or the Bible, and possibly both. Although I have not found the exact wording yet, one passage that has come up more than once during my search is from Shakespeare's ...

Love's Labour's Lost

http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=loveslabours&Act=4&Scene=3&Scope=scene

Ferdinand. [Reads]

So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not
To those fresh morning drops upon the rose,
As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote
The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows:
Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright
Through the transparent bosom of the deep,
As doth thy face through tears of mine give light;
Thou shinest in every tear that I do weep:
No drop but as a coach doth carry thee;
So ridest thou triumphing in my woe.
Do but behold the tears that swell in me,
And they thy glory through my grief will show:
But do not love thyself; then thou wilt keep
My tears for glasses, and still make me weep.
O queen of queens! How far dost thou excel,
No thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell.
How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper:
Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here?