This listing is for a LARGE cardboard Coca Cola Christmas give-away item CIRCA 1970

SIZE = 320 mm by 270 mm so EXPENSIVE to post (IF you do buy three of the same ? will not cost a penny more to mail)

"CONTAINS"......

Eleven (11) Gift or Presentation labels for your Christmas presents as well as three (3) cardboard cut outs to ornament your gifts OR your Christmas Tree One is an ANGEL with Halo & Trumpet, another is a Coke bottle wielding Santa Clause figure, & a Little Girl carol Singer all can be clipped-out of the cardboard and made-up into Christmas decorations OR collection display items (They were DESIGNED to be held ONTO your Christmas GIFTS by the ribbons that tie them....the cardboard cut-outs have facility for a "ribbon-slit" at their base)

INFORMATION about the "Coke Santa" figure from WWW.......

1. Santa Has Been Featured in Coke Ads Since the 1920s

The Coca-Cola Company began its Christmas advertising in the 1920s with shopping-related ads in magazines like The Saturday Evening Post. The first Santa ads used a strict-looking Claus, in the vein of Thomas Nast.

In 1930, artist Fred Mizen painted a department-store Santa in a crowd drinking a bottle of Coke. The ad featured the world's largest soda fountain, which was located in the department store Famous Barr Co. in St. Louis, Mo. Mizen's painting was used in print ads that Christmas season, appearing in The Saturday Evening Post in December 1930.

1. Coca-Cola Helped Shape the Image of Santa

In 1931 the company began placing Coca-Cola ads in popular magazines. Archie Lee, the D'Arcy Advertising Agency executive working with The Coca-Cola Company, wanted the campaign to show a wholesome Santa who was both realistic and symbolic. So Coca-Cola commissioned Michigan-born illustrator Haddon Sundblom to develop advertising images using Santa Claus — showing Santa himself, not a man dressed as Santa.

READ MORE about Coca Cola INVENTING this version of Santa HERE....

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-santa-claus