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tcapps2461
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Does anyone know what this is? The size 15 3/4" long by 12" wide by 18" high please email me with any info at tcapps2461@aol.com
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I would say this could be a "Salesman's Sample" They would make these for the salesmen to take out to their customers, and show them an example of what the coolers would look like. They made them smaller for easy transport. The style of cooler is very similar to the glasscock cooler.
The lid doesn't look quite right, does it? And that print added to the underside of the lid is of interest to me, because it's identical to that stenciled on the back side of a fake Coca-Cola sign I acquired some number of months back (check it out by following the link attached to my CW profile). So I'm not sure what you've got there, the lid is definitely a question mark. Are you in Canada by chance?
That "Bierman Sign Co." is burned into my fragile psyche after The Great Sign Debacle of 2011. The reason I asked tcapps if he's in Canada, my research of Bierman Sign Co. turned up most of fake signs marked Bierman seem to have been sold out of Canada. I guess the main thing I learned from you and earlycoke through that ordeal, is the devil is in the details. If this is a salesman sample, it should be of the same high quality as the actual coolers of the period. Have you seen some of those sample Coke coolers? Yikes, they go for 2 grand, and you could never tell by looking at the pics with no scale that they weren't the full size. I'm no Pepsi guy, but the print on that lid sure do look funny, especially that big red patent pending stenciled on there.
I am a Coke guy myself . . . that is why I don't know anything about this. I inherited the cooler from my father-in-law and if my memory serves me right, I remember seeing it in his house in the 80's. Also the reason I took a photo of the inside of the lid was that the stencil concerned me too.
what bothers me is the yellow color of the lid, and the knobs don't seem to be correct. The cooler itself seems to have age and patina, I know that all that could be faked. But it seems no one put the same effort into the lid. My gut feeling is the cooler is correct, with a replacement lid.
"Bierman" strikes again.
Love the slogan on it...only 5 cents in the good ol' days!
FINALLY, a Pepsi man!!!!!!!!!