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Post by nana on Sept 7, 2020 19:11:29 GMT -5
1$ at a yard sale. The memories are priceless! And you can still see Shirley Temple! On the one we had growing up she was only the shadow of a ghost. Out of 7 people at the brewery, three (including me) remembered one.
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Post by dwayner2 on Sept 7, 2020 23:00:03 GMT -5
Never seen one before but I do like that dark blue. You might want to price it on Ebay, looks like a collector’s dream.
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Post by pooka on Sept 8, 2020 0:13:00 GMT -5
I've never seen one either. Bellow is the info from a collectors site. Their price of $75 for the set is very optimistic. eBay shows them from around $5 to $20 for just the pitcher. And as it says bellow, they were reproduced. It's still cool though. I'm sure mom would have remembered them. She was born in 1924, so she'd be ten when they first came out. It's got that nostalgic vibe going for it. Shirley Temple Pitchers – Kovels - January 13, 2010During the 1930s, General Mills commissioned the Hazel Atlas Glass Co. to produce a breakfast set with the picture and signature of Shirley Temple. A set consisted of a bowl, a mug and a 4 1/2-inch milk pitcher. They were made of cobalt blue honeycomb pattern glass with white decals of Shirley Temple. Some pieces were decorated with the picture of a very young Shirley, others used a picture of Shirley in her 1936 Captain January costume. The pieces were given away as premiums for Wheaties and Bisquick from 1934 to 1942. Hard to spot reproductions have been made. In good condition with an intact decal, original Shirley Temple milk pitchers are worth about $75
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Post by nana on Sept 9, 2020 6:09:43 GMT -5
She’s not intact, but visible at least. But I just like having it around. I’m surprised none of you had one! Maybe it was a Northeast regional thing?
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Post by dwayner2 on Sept 9, 2020 8:25:09 GMT -5
If they would have had something like that down in TX it would have had the cartoon ‘Speedy Gonzales’ on it. I used to watch that show religiously.
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Post by mach12 on Sept 9, 2020 11:00:48 GMT -5
I've never seen one of those pitchers but it would be cool to have. We had two pitchers, a blue aluminum one that had matching aluminum tumblers and an etched crystal one that I don't remember ever being used, certainly not by me and my brother. At some point we got a plastic pitcher, probably in a box of laundry detergent or something. My mother was big on those freebie offers. If a gas station was giving a drinking glass with a fill-up, I knew where we were getting gas.
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Post by pooka on Sept 9, 2020 11:03:38 GMT -5
She’s not intact, but visible at least. But I just like having it around. I’m surprised none of you had one! Maybe it was a Northeast regional thing? Since it was a premiums for Wheaties and Bisquick from 1934 to 1942, that may be a part of where they were distributed. This was a time when prepackaged, processed foods were becoming more prevalent. That's why built in kitchen cabinets were becoming more wide spread, because of all the new products to store. For a lot of people, they were still making a lot of things from scratch.
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Post by karitx on Sept 14, 2020 16:46:12 GMT -5
My mother-in-law had that pitcher! She was born in 1929 and grew up in west Texas. She loved it and had it on a shelf in her kitchen. No one dared to touch it!
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