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Pepsi Michael Jackson &
Other Sample Glasses
Copyright Collector Glass News - Pepsi Sample Glasses
Pepsi Sample Glasses - l. to r.: Michael Jackson Pepsi, Happy Birthday Mickey - Pluto, Andy Panda & Miranda (no Pepsi logo), Happy Birthday Mickey - Daisy

  Collector Glass News Auction #55 contains four sample or prototype glasses. These four glasses are pictured above. The most exciting of these is the Michael Jackson glass with the red, white, and blue circular Pepsi-Cola logo on the back. This glass is believed to be one-of-a-kind. No other versions similar to this have surfaced. The glass dated to the early 1980's and was part of a promotion that got off the ground.
   The other three glasses are all early versions of promotions that were later produced. The Pluto and Daisy glass have similar art work to the single character round bottom glasses that were done in the early 1980s. The Happy Birthday Mickey artwork on these glasses was replaced. These glasses were distributed, but different and more elaborate artwork were used.
   The Andy Panda and Miranda glasses is a 16 oz. Brockway glass too. This artwork was later used on two different sized versions of this set, but not on a Brockway 16 oz. tumbler. It was also a Pepsi promotion, although the Pepsi name nor logo appear on the glass.

These glasses are lots #1 - #4 in the current auction.