Vintage Cream Top Milk Bottle With A Cream Top Spoon

Description

This Cream Top milk bottle is a clear 9 1/2" tall, quart-size example. Unfortunately, there is a bulls-eye crack in the bottle. It still displays well, until you can find a replacement. It is embossed "Fairview Dairy, Phillipsburg, N.J." A must-have example for any eclectic bottle collection. The spoon is of average wear. The starting price is low so that a new collector can get a great bottle at a reasonable price. Please let the pictures serve as part of the description.
A little back story:
The
Cream Top
separator, a humble metal ladle, was designed for the purpose of separating
cream
from
milk
in a particular type of
milk bottle
. Before homogenized
milk
became widespread in the late 1940s,
milk bottles
typically featured a
top
layer of
cream
-- the fat that naturally rises to the
milk's
surface.
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