QUICK "POPEYE SODA" QUESTION

[SODAPOPBOB]

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Meet ... World-renowned Popeye collector ... Bruce Shults

http://home.earthlink.net/~thimbletheatre/index.html

http://oafcon2013.blogspot.com/2013/09/popeye-collector-comes-to-oafcon-bruce.html

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[SODAPOPBOB]

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Please be reminded that I offered Bruce Shults $500 for his Popeye bottle cap, which he politely declined, saying he intended to keep it because in all his years of collecting Popeye memorabilia he had never seen or heard of another one like it and that it was highly possible he never would. During the course of our email exchanges he said he had no doubt the cap was a genuine period piece from the 1930s-1940s. Hence, based on his many years of collecting and researching Popeye, I am inclined to accept his evaluation of the cap.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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Just for the fun of it ... (King Comics #43 1939) [attachment=Popeye Comic 43 1939 (5).jpg]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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Reality vs. Fantasy [] [attachment=Popeye Comic 43 1939 (2).jpg] [attachment=Popeye Comic 43 1939 (5).jpg]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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I heard from Bruce Shults and here's what he had to say regarding his Popeye bottle cap ...
Hi Bob

Good to hear from you again.

Several years ago I communicated with Phil Pfeiffer who was at that time the president of the Crowncap Collectors Society International (CCSI). Their website is the bottlecapclub.org. Yes, I shared the picture of the Popeye crown with Phil at that time, so the pic is of my bottle cap.

I don’t have any new information to share with you. But it looks like someone at the CCSI seems to believe the cap was used sometime between 1935 and 1941. My educated guess is still circa 1938, based on a variety of things I’ve seen and read. But that’s still just a guess.

If you find out anything new, please let me know and I will do the same.

Take care

Bruce

 

[sunrunner]

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hay, there Bob , I have read all of the threads , and have come to the conclusion this bottle came from a small bottler most likely in the late 1930s or early 1040s . the bottle had a paper labile and nun have survived , but who knows ? there may be a slim chance one will eventually show up .

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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~ Fantasy but possibly close to reality ~ From ... The Sodapopbob Daily News ~ California ~ October 21, 1938 [attachment=POPEYE ARTICLE FAKE (2).jpg]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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~ Reality ~ Just received from King Features ... Copy/Pasted Hello, We do not have much information on this. According to our archivist, although there were advertising artifacts that came out of it, the "Popeye Tropical Beverage" was a very short-lived license. Sorry we can’t be more helpful. Thanks.
Claudia Smith | Director, Public Relations King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst300 West 57[sup]th[/sup] Street, New York, NY 10019 212.969.7542 | cmsmith@hearst.comKingFeatures.com | fb.com/KingFeatures | @KingFeatures

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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P.S. I sent Claudia a reply and asked ... 1. Do you happen to know what the "artifacts" are that you referred to?2. Do you happen to know a date(s) for the "Short-lived license?"

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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Here's the copy/pasted reply I just received from Claudia ... Bob I have nothing more specific than what I’ve told you. The pictures you sent are, I believe, the artifacts our archivist referred to.
Claudia Smith | Director, Public Relations King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst300 West 57[sup]th[/sup] Street, New York, NY 10019 212.969.7542 | cmsmith@hearst.comKingFeatures.com | fb.com/KingFeatures | @KingFeatures