Milk bottle top

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Title

Milk bottle top

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is signficant as an artefact associated with the home delivery of milk in bottles, a practice that was phased towards the end of the 20th century. This bottle top cap would have secured the contents of a milk bottle which would have been delivered to the door by the milkman on his morning milk run, the most common way of acquiring milk and cream for the household for much of the 20th century. Bottle tops provided useful vehicles for advertising. This one probably dates from the 1950s, w...

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Format

Image

Date created

circa 1950

Creator

Westland Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd.

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1263668

Related subjects

cardboard / covers / Milk / Westport / New Zealand

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