Back the Beagle Vintage Glass From Dolly Madison
I picked up this "Back the Beagle" glass at Goodwill in Elmhurst recently when I was dropping off a whole bunch of old Halloween decorations. I figured...while I was there....why not take a quick stroll through the store to see if there were any treasures. This one seemed like a natural addition to our vintage glass collection. It is the exact same shape/style as the Chipettes one that I posted about last fall . The thing that jumped out at me was that we had a "Character X for President' glass in the collection with this "Pooh for President" glass from Sears . The front features Snoopy and the slogan "Back the Beagle". The back, seen below, has a 1958 copyright, which isn't when this glass was produced. Can't be. I went digging ebay and the web to find out more about the glass and it turns out, there was a series of four of these glasses - all around the "Vote Snoopy" campaign. Here's a screenshot from a li