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1971 21'x10' 7Up UnCola "7Up Money-Back Bottles Make Cents" vintage billboard poster by Skip Williamson #7UpUnCola
Date posted: 12/22/22
- - - Please note that ALL of my images are "All Rights Reserved" and are posted for educational purposes only. Please do the right thing and contact me in advance if you wish to discuss the use or reuse of my images and provide a link to my originals. I would also ask that I be given a "first look" at any 7Up UnCola billboards or posters before you market them to the general public in return for my extensive investment in time, money and research, including interviewing some of the surviving artists. Thanks, and enjoy. - - -
Search "7Up UnCola Billboards" on eBay www.ebay.com/usr/finishstrong312 or peruse my albums on Flickr.com www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums if you'd like to learn more about this stunning body of work or acquire originals that might be duplicates to me. I keep the best and sell the rest.
Read about the illustrator’s career on Wikipedia here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Williamson
Before he died in 2017, Skip did confirm to me in an email that this was his image. It's a bit more family friendly relative to the rest of his more provocative work. Search for Sammy Smoot who was perhaps his most well known character and then compare the styles, eyeballs and tongue.
You can learn more about my one-of-a-kind 7Up UnCola billboard & poster collection by reading this in-depth 2016 article in Collectors Weekly (dot com) or the other links that follow:
www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/collecting-7ups-most-be...
flashbak.com/when-7up-was-cool-the-uncola-ad-campaign-196...
www.djfood.org/7up-the-uncola-posters/
dangerousminds.net/comments/the_uncola_7up_and_the_most_p...
This image:
This is Design xxxx per the rainlap diagram on the rear of top left Panel A1. Note: this billboard did not have a Rainlap Diagram design number included.
I've dated it to 1971 based upon its inclusion in the small American Contemporary Graphics booklet from that same year. It could also be from earlier.
21'x10' vintage billboard acquired in Very Good condition.
To save on printing costs, this image was printed with a larger number of smaller panels so they could ship the all white panels that didn't have to be run through the offset lithograph printing machines. Normally they have 12 panels at 43" wide x 59" tall. I was able to reinforce the panels with minimal clear, acid-free scrapbooking tape on the back (only).
Unfortunately, the very bottom right panel G2 is missing. It's all white with the exception of about an inch of the last "s" in "cents" which I Photoshopped in to this collage.
This is truly ONE-OF-A-KIND. I know of no other copies in any size at this time.
The illustrator and their image was featured on pages #17 & 18 in a small American Contemporary Graphics booklet from about 1971-72:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums/72157636886600686
This image was NOT featured in issue #47 of the "Dimensions" quarterly booklet published in the Fall of 1973 by the Simpson Lee Paper Company - this time focused entirely on 7Up billboards:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums/72157649999521398
This was NOT offered in the purplish billboard and poster offer that expired on 12/31/70:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/21744527254/in/album-7...
This was NOT offered in the square foldout billboard and poster offer that expired on 5/31/72 (4 photos):
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8203486520/in/album-72...
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8202391927/in/album-72...
This was NOT offered in the yellow billboard and poster offer that expired on 9/1/72:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/5809333595/in/album-72...
This was NOT offered in the “New For 1973” billboard and poster offer that expired on 6/30/74:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/15729486025/in/album-7...
1971 21'x10' 7Up UnCola "7Up Money-Back Bottles Make Cents" vintage billboard poster by Skip Williamson #7UpUnCola
Date posted: 12/22/22
- - - Please note that ALL of my images are "All Rights Reserved" and are posted for educational purposes only. Please do the right thing and contact me in advance if you wish to discuss the use or reuse of my images and provide a link to my originals. I would also ask that I be given a "first look" at any 7Up UnCola billboards or posters before you market them to the general public in return for my extensive investment in time, money and research, including interviewing some of the surviving artists. Thanks, and enjoy. - - -
Search "7Up UnCola Billboards" on eBay www.ebay.com/usr/finishstrong312 or peruse my albums on Flickr.com www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums if you'd like to learn more about this stunning body of work or acquire originals that might be duplicates to me. I keep the best and sell the rest.
Read about the illustrator’s career on Wikipedia here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Williamson
Before he died in 2017, Skip did confirm to me in an email that this was his image. It's a bit more family friendly relative to the rest of his more provocative work. Search for Sammy Smoot who was perhaps his most well known character and then compare the styles, eyeballs and tongue.
You can learn more about my one-of-a-kind 7Up UnCola billboard & poster collection by reading this in-depth 2016 article in Collectors Weekly (dot com) or the other links that follow:
www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/collecting-7ups-most-be...
flashbak.com/when-7up-was-cool-the-uncola-ad-campaign-196...
www.djfood.org/7up-the-uncola-posters/
dangerousminds.net/comments/the_uncola_7up_and_the_most_p...
This image:
This is Design xxxx per the rainlap diagram on the rear of top left Panel A1. Note: this billboard did not have a Rainlap Diagram design number included.
I've dated it to 1971 based upon its inclusion in the small American Contemporary Graphics booklet from that same year. It could also be from earlier.
21'x10' vintage billboard acquired in Very Good condition.
To save on printing costs, this image was printed with a larger number of smaller panels so they could ship the all white panels that didn't have to be run through the offset lithograph printing machines. Normally they have 12 panels at 43" wide x 59" tall. I was able to reinforce the panels with minimal clear, acid-free scrapbooking tape on the back (only).
Unfortunately, the very bottom right panel G2 is missing. It's all white with the exception of about an inch of the last "s" in "cents" which I Photoshopped in to this collage.
This is truly ONE-OF-A-KIND. I know of no other copies in any size at this time.
The illustrator and their image was featured on pages #17 & 18 in a small American Contemporary Graphics booklet from about 1971-72:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums/72157636886600686
This image was NOT featured in issue #47 of the "Dimensions" quarterly booklet published in the Fall of 1973 by the Simpson Lee Paper Company - this time focused entirely on 7Up billboards:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums/72157649999521398
This was NOT offered in the purplish billboard and poster offer that expired on 12/31/70:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/21744527254/in/album-7...
This was NOT offered in the square foldout billboard and poster offer that expired on 5/31/72 (4 photos):
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8203486520/in/album-72...
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8202391927/in/album-72...
This was NOT offered in the yellow billboard and poster offer that expired on 9/1/72:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/5809333595/in/album-72...
This was NOT offered in the “New For 1973” billboard and poster offer that expired on 6/30/74:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/15729486025/in/album-7...