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Antique Country General Store Glass Counter Jars & Advertising Tins ID Guide
$ 15.81
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Collector Bookstore724 Delaware Street
Leavenworth, KS 66048
Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration.
SO-SCH-1997-076430240X-WH3
Country Store Counter Jars & Tins by: Steve Batson
ISBN:
076430240X
Book Title:
Country Store Counter Jars and Tins
Author:
Steve Batson
Binding:
Soft Cover
Copyright:
1997
Pages:
152
Size:
8.5 x 11 in.
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.
A nostalgic glimpse at the glass counter jars, tins, boxes, and display racks which held American's favorite cookies, candies, and snack foods in America's country stores. These items are chronicled and illustrated in over 390 color photographs. Histories of over 75 companies which used them, covering over 100 year, from Adams Gum and Dixie Biscuit to Planter's Peanuts and Wise Potato Chips are provided along with detailed listings of the variations among their distribution jars and lids over the decades. Mergers among the snack food giants are recorded and mention is made of over 200 companies that profoundly affected every type of snack food from chewing gum to cookies. Major marketing and distribution trends and the dates associated with them are also revealed. Values for the counter jars and their variations are provided.
(Also includes M&Ms, Wrigley's, Lance)
570 photos & illustrations
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