We went antique shopping today. I'm going to show you some of the absolutely bizarre things we found. I'll CW and unlist the thread.
I did not buy most of these things.
Antiques, allegeldy
In case you were wondering, there was no information for visitors.
Antiques, allegeldy
This chonker is coin operated, allegedly.
Antiques, allegeldy
Cartography is politics, and don't forget it?
Antiques, allegeldy
An issue of popular mechanics with an article about projection TVs from 1948???
(I bought this.)
Antiques Allegedly
EXCITING NEW FACTS ABOUT OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
I think the thing that really sells this one is the word "advertisement" underneath the image.
@ajroach42 that has come all the way from Britain; Crusha is a flavoured milk additive (still available today).
Unigate experimented in the 70s/80s with printing these ads on the milk bottles that the milkman delivered. They didn't always have these adverts, and they were more common around holiday periods (maybe as kids were encouraged to bring in the milk and they would see the ads...)
@ajroach42 others had mostly milk-related ads for cornflakes, tea, biscuits, newspapers or the dairies themselves but occasionally there were even ads for car dealerships on them.
The milko still delivers round my street, he has a new modern electric van and the same milk bottle design is making a resurgence (currently without adverts, though I wouldn't rule out their return if/when the bottom falls out of the internet adtech market!)
@vfrmedia oh! It's a Milk bottle. Okay. That explains everything.