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Object Name4 Soft-Drink Bottles

Factory Nippon Glass Company

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1958

Techniquemold-blown

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number61.6.52

Credit LineGift of Dorothy Blair

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Place Made

Japan, Tokyo, Minato; Japan, Shiba shin

Physical Description(A) Colorless glass; mold-blown. Collared rim, short neck spreading to cylindrical body; mold-blown panels for colorful silk-screen label, with Arabic script; flat base; pebbly surface; labels: fruit symbol, and, below: "Kama-Fruit"; two crossed flags and a two-line inscription on slightly concave base, a molded symbol in center "S", apparently for the Sabah Bottling Company, and below, "59". (B) Colorless glass; mold-blown. Collared rim, short neck spreading to cylindrical body; mold-blown panels for colorful silk-screen label, with Arabic script; flat base; labels with leaping white deer in blue oval and, below, four lines of Arabic script and "Bottled by Al-Sabah Bottling and Cold Storage Company, Kuwait. This bottle is the property of the bottlers"; molded in the base: "5 S K/59". (C) Colorless glass; mold-blown. Collared rim, short neck spreading to cylindrical body; mold-blown panels for colorful silk-screen label, with Arabic script; flat base; labels in red, white and blue, with Arabic script, a leaping deer, and "Kia-era". (D) Colorless glass; mold-blown. Collared rim, short neck spreading to cylindrical body; mold-blown panels for colorful silk-screen label, with Arabic script; flat base; labels in red and white with Arabic script inscriptions; on the back: "8 S A/58".
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