Vintage Mug Root Beer Bottle Cap Embossed Advertising Soda Collectible 🥤 printed_in_italy_label The subject is a red

The subject is a red portrait of a woman

Both labels are collected as a set by some Worcester County ephemera collectors

a parlor rather than a factory floor

The inner label — sometimes called the box lid label — was a larger format piece

vivid condition it carried out of the print shop

Vintage Mug Root Beer Bottle Cap Embossed Advertising Soda Collectible 🥤 printed_in_italy_label The subject is a redWhat Stories Can a Single Bottle Cap Still Tell? Long before anyone worried about recycling a bottle cap, these little crimped discs of tin were tossed into cigar boxes, pinned to corkboards, and pressed flat into penny arcade machines by kids who collected them the way we'd collect baseball cards today. A soda cap like this one was never meant to survive it did its one job popping off a cold bottle at a corner store or drugstore soda counter, and