Christmas Day Coca-Cola bottle

[Ed_DE]

Found a Christmas Day Coca-Cola bottle Pat. date December 25,1923 while detecting in the woods yesterday. It was a surface find and the bottle was in OK shape except for a crack tip above the neck of the bottle.

I thought it was a little unusual that I would find a 102 year old Coca-cola bottle that was still intact on the surface of the ground.

So I did some research and found out that Coca-Cola made reproductions of the 1923 Christmas bottle in the 1980’s.

One way I could tell it’s a reproduction is the tiny 86 date code on the bottom half of the bottle.

Even though it’s a reproduction 1923 Christmas bottle it’s still a nice find.

 

[AU Seeker]

Found a Christmas Day Coca-Cola bottle Pat. date December 25,1923 while detecting in the woods yesterday. It was a surface find and the bottle was in OK shape except for a crack tip above the neck of the bottle.

I thought it was a little unusual that I would find a 102 year old Coca-cola bottle that was still intact on the surface of the ground.

So I did some research and found out that Coca-Cola made reproductions of the 1923 Christmas bottle in the 1980’s.

One way I could tell it’s a reproduction is the tiny 86 date code on the bottom half of the bottle.

Even though it’s a reproduction 1923 Christmas bottle it’s still a nice find.

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Is there any writing on the bottom?

 

[Ed_DE]

Is there any writing on the bottom?

Yes …. It had Philadelphia. I left the bottle where I found it . I can’t remember if it was small or large print. Small print would make it a reproduction.

 

[AU Seeker]

Yes …. It had Philadelphia. I left the bottle where I found it . I can’t remember if it was small or large print. Small print would make it a reproduction.

When I was a kid I collected soda bottles and turned them in for the deposit so I had some money for candy, I use to love looking at the bottoms of Coke bottles to see where they were made!

 

[BCSMark]

I am not certain it’s a reproduction. It looks like it has heavy case wear from being used and re used many times. The reproduction bottles were used once and thrown away.
I’ve found bottles much older than that on the surface, I wouldn’t be too alarmed by that.
If you had a pic of the base that would show pretty well if it was an original or not.

 

[BCSMark]

It looks like lt could be possible the date code is actually 1936? That would make sense.

 

[Ed_DE]

I went back today to get the hobbleskirt Christmas Day coke bottle I found. I took a pic of the bottom & better pics of the date code. I believe the 62 is the Julian date & the 36 is the year.

Reproductions I believe were made in 1989 & 1997.

 

[BCSMark]

Looks like the real deal