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Beer In Ads #2279: Three Rings, Winter Sled

May 17, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Ballantine, from 1948. In this ad, part of a series progressing from one, to two, to three rings, this one shows a sled pulled through the snow by a white horse. It’s obviously Christmastime and the couple appears to be delivering Ballantine, but it seems to be that each house they visit adds one more smoke ring from their chimney so that by the third home it’s the Ballantine logo in fireplace smoke rings.

Ballantine-1948-rings-xmas-sled

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Ballantine, Christmas, History, Holidays



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