Simba box

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Someone gave me this Simba cardboard box for the 26 oz bottle. It is brittle and falling to pieces everytime I touch it. But, it is still pretty cool.

 

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Side view:

 

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Another side view:

 

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And the bottom: Made in 1968, for or by the Ownes Illinois Glass Company. Was this box used by Owens Illinois to ship the bottles to the Coca-Cola bottlers? I am trying to figure out how to preserve the box. It won't last long! Maybe fill it with packing peanuts, then shrink wrap it. (Sorry, in first post I said 26 oz, when it is for the 28 oz size. I miss the edit button, it disappears too quickly)

 

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Cool box. I know Owens-Illinois had there own box division at one time, and possibly still do. They made both wood and cardboard boxes. But whether yours was used to ship empty bottles or full ones, I don't know. However, I did notice in the last picture of the bottom what appears to be indentations from the box being set atop another box, with the small circular indentations possibly being caused by the tops of other bottles. Does the box have top flaps, or remnants of them?

The shrink wrap should work. And maybe a just slightly smaller box inside of it first to give it support.

SPBOB

 

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Bob,
From what I can tell it never had any top flaps. A smaller box is a good idea too!
Thanks,
Doug

 

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Doug ~

I'm just guessing here, but leaning toward the box intended for "empty" bottles from the glass factory. I base this primarily on the info on the bottom where it says ... 1 DZ, 1/2 1/2 C/T2A3 1/4. That looks like some kind of bottle type code. Perhaps it originally had a cardboard divider inside to keep the bottles from rubbing against one another. Plus, I suspect that once the bottles were filled at the bottler and put on trucks for distribution, they would be handled in wooden or plastic cases. ???

SPBOB

 

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It does have a 12 section divider in the box.
All the 28 oz Simba bottles I have are marked with the Owen Illinois makers mark. I don't know if any other glass manufacturer made them. So, two more clues there.

 

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I remember drinking Simba. The best I can do to describe the flavor is that it was like a combination of Mountain Dew and and 7up. If you can imagine that. I think it may have been Coca Cola's way of competeting with Mountain Dew. I never liked it all that much.

I couldn't find a picture of a 28 oz bottle, but here's a 10 oz example for those few among us who may not know what Simba looked like.

SPBOB

 

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Here is my 10 oz and 28 oz Simba