50\'s Vintage Clicquot Club Lighted Telechron Clock Soda Pop Ginger Ale Sign Pam
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50\'s Vintage Clicquot Club Lighted Telechron Clock Soda Pop Ginger Ale Sign Pam :
$695.00
I will ship this very scarce and nice original Clicquot Club clock to any country outside of the USA using Priority Mail International from the United States Postal Service. I will double box it and ship it anywhere here in the USA using the most economical option available from the United States Postal Service or FedEx Ground, whichever you prefer.
I bought this very nice original clock at an sale several months ago. The first five photos of this listing have some very light blue water mark lettering on them that says \"North American sale Co.\" on them. I do have their permission to use their photos on any of my listings here on . That lettering is only on those first 5 photos and is NOT on the clock anywhere.
This clock is in very nice original condition and still lights up and runs fine. It has a 60 cycle synchronous AC motor so it will work fine on any 110 volt 60 cycle AC power source which is common here in North America. If you are in Europe where there is some 50 cycle AC power, this clock will still light up and run fine but it will run about 10% slower than a clock with a 50 cycle AC motor.
The glass lens, the glass dial and the original hands are still in very nice original condition. The full color graphics on this gem are absolutely gorgeous. This scarce clock will make a very nice addition to any collection of clocks or advertising memorabilia.
The very bottom of the face has lettering on it which starts with \"CLICQUOT-7\". That lettering implies that there may be at least 6 other versions of Clicquot Club clocks that were made before this one and perhaps some others made later. I checked present and past listings here on and could find only 1 other similar Clicquot Club round clock. It was marked \"CLICQUOT-9\" at the bottom and sold for $500 at Miller\'s live sale in Tomah Wisconsin on Saturday February 11. The graphics on that clock were rather plain compared to the beautiful graphics on this somewhat earlier clock.
As you can see in the last three photos of this listing, the pressed fiberboard rear housing has some stains on it, the Telechron decal is flaking off a bit and the hole at the top of the rear housing where this clock would hang has some minor wear around it. The last photo is a close up of the worn mounting hole. I saw a similar clock several years ago that had that hole completely worn through so that that clock may have actually fallen off of the wall. The hole in this clock is no where near to being worn through yet so it should be OK for many years to come.
Clicquot Club was a brand of ginger ale and many other flavors of soda pop that were manufactured in Millis, Massachusetts and sold here in the USA as well as in South America and other countries. The following is a very interesting history from Wikipedia :
Founded in 1881 in what is now known asMillis, Massachusetts, Henry Millis (son of Lansing Millis, after whom the town was named in 1885) made a suggestion to Charles LaCroix, of the LaCroix Fruit Farm, that he call his sparkling cider \"Clicquot\" - after the famous French champagne,Veuve Clicquot- and start selling it. Shortly after, Clicquot Club was built by Henry Millis from money he had received from his father, Lansing.
The company produced mainlysparkling ciderfor the first few years but later on Millis would experiment in other flavors as well. The sparkling cider was soon dropped and the company began focusing mainly on ginger ale. During this time the soda company hired a significant amount of the town\'s residents and would continue to do so for years to come. Millis continued to improve upon his beverages through his philosophy of making the drinks as though he were making them for his own friends. He imported high-quality exotic ingredients includingJamaicanginger, andCubanpure refinedsugar. These two were the key ingredients to his ginger ale making the company standout in this field.
Even though word of his soda spread over southEasternNew Englandin the next few years, the cost of such fine ingredients eventually forced Henry Millis to sell his company in 1901. The new proprietors, Horace A. Kimball and his son, H. Earle Kimball, took advantage of every form of advertising, including the Clicquot Club \"Eskimo Boy\" (which became one of America’s best-known advertising symbols); an animated sign in Manhattan\'sTimes Square(the largest animated sign in the world from 1924 to 1926); and even a musical variety radio program,The Clicquot Club Eskimos,led by banjo playerHarry F. Reser.There were 25 sessions of records under the supervision of Harry Reser and issued under the name \"Clicquot Club Eskimos\" recorded from December, 1925 through February, 1931.
Such clever marketing expanded the company until the factory in Millis became 1/3 of a mile long, even with its own private train station. The section around this massive factory became known as \"Millis-Clicquot, Massachusetts.\" The company also was responsible for a number of pioneering moves in an effort to meet demand: In 1893, Clicquot Club was the first to put a metal cap on a bottle; in 1934, the first to sell quart bottles; and in 1938 the company became the first to sell its beverages in a can, at this time known as a \"cone-top\" can, making it easier to manufacture.
With the establishment of a new network of Clicquot Club Bottling Plants in 1938 the company soon had dozens of factories across the country. This number grew rapidly until in 1952 the company had plants in over 100 cities all across the United States, fromMainetoCalifornia. In the 1950s the company began distributing internationally, in places such as Jamaica, Nassau, theBahamas, virtually all ofSouth America, and thePhilippines. The company began to decline in sales worldwide thanks to other soft drinks and was purchased in 1969 by theCott Beverage CorporationofConnecticut. The Cott Corporation eventually sold off all product surplus before shutting down Clicquot. Today the original plant in Millis remains mostly abandoned, although one-third of it is (as of January 2013) occupied by garden and hardware stores. Although there has been contemplation of starting the company back up again in recent years, no attempts have ever gotten further than the drawing board.
If you collect Clicquot Club or beverage related items or beautiful older clocks from the middle of the last century, you might do very well to give some very serious thought to purchasing this very hard to find especially beautiful original clock. I have a few more photos I can email to you if you call me and give me your regular email address. Thanks a lot, Bob Woodburn in Bozeman Montana USA
50\'s Vintage Clicquot Club Lighted Telechron Clock Soda Pop Ginger Ale Sign Pam :
$695.00