Description: Please email with any questions. Vintage cream pitcher, 6" tall, 4" from spout to handle, marked faintly on the back HANDY FLAME INDIANAPOLIS. The following was found online about this unusual mascot: " In the late 1940s, a small, Indiana-based advertising agency was tasked with selling the Handy Flame® cartoon character to natural-gas companies around the country. The Handy Flame creator, William H. Rohr Jr., believed that Handy Flame could be the gas industry’s equivalent of Reddy Kilowatt®, the spokesman of the electric utilities in those days. Rohr Jr. copyrighted the Handy Flame name and image in 1946 for the purposes of “ . . . Advertising services to the gas utilities industry—namely, preparation of advertising layouts . . . ” hoping that it would be licensed by the nation’s natural-gas providers as their advertising mascot. As promotional items they did not catch on, the cheerful blue forms appear to have distribution attributions limited to the “Indianapolis Gas Co” and the “Indianapolis Blue Flame Gas Co.". No chips or cracks. The black eyes and red tongue are "cold painted" meaning that the color was not fired onto the ceramic and has worn off. I think you could get some glossy craft paint and touch it up if you want to. Tiny glaze flake on the rim.
Price: 14.99 USD
Location: Macon, Georgia
End Time: 2025-02-11T18:56:09.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Color: Blue
Theme: Communication & Utilities
Original/Reproduction: Original
