I believe this to be a new, never used water bottle, but to be safe, I'm selling it as "used"... it's almost impossible to retain the pristine printing shown on this bottle without it basically never being used on a bicycle or inserted into a bicycle water bottle cage. There are a few rubs, see pictures, but bottles of the era came out of shipping box with this typical type of small smudges to the printing on the outside of the bottle. I imagine that this bottle was probably given out as a premium at a bicycle race event, maybe as a perk to all those who competed. The age of the bottle is just my guess... Raleigh USA was around from mid 80's to the late 90's. There is a "recycle number" printed on the bottom of the bottle, so it can be no earlier than 1988. The addition of the Rock Shox logo, which Raleigh used to spec'ed out their early 90's mountain bicycles (and on), tends to point to a early/mid-90's date. The lack of website URL's with the logo's tends to reinforce this guess. Thanks for shopping.