Need help identifying old coca cola bottle

[Troutmanhambone]

While fishing today, i found a coca cola bottle in the creek buried in the sand. Looks and feels old but I'm no expert. I'm not really interested on the value, just the age of it or any other interesting facts. Here's a few pics

 

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[GaRebel1861]

Keeper! I Noticed that you did not show the top in your photos? Is it a whole bottle?

 

[Troutmanhambone]

Keeper! I Noticed that you did not show the top in your photos? Is it a whole bottle?

yup it's a whole bottle

 

[Troutmanhambone]

Btw, I live in Carlisle pa. The top of this bottle says 'hbg' in cursive. I assume the hbg stands for Harrisburg which is about 45 min from me. Any idea on the age? Thanks for your help

 

[GaRebel1861]

My thought? 1910ish. Someone here will correct me if I'm wrong. A nice find!

 

[Troutmanhambone]

Right on man

 

[NHBandit]

Agree on the approximate age. I have a straight sided Coca Cola bottle myself from Mobile Alabama from that same era and what I learned though was that if the bottle has block letters like yours (and mine) it was another flavor of soda or even water, NOT Coke and was simply bottled by Coca Cola. If the logo is in the typical script style they still use today it contained Coke. Block lettered bottles, while cool, don't have anywhere near the value of one with script lettering.

 

[Troutmanhambone]

Interesting. Thanks a lot for the help. Gonna have to keep my eye out from now on

 

[Troutmanhambone]

The bottle also says 'root' on the bottom edge next to the serial number (M2581E)

 

[surf]

Hello Troutman,

Welcome to this place and thanks for showing us your new bottle.

I'd say 1913+, due to the "7 Fluid Ounces" on the heel. This was mandated in 1913 by the Gould Amendment to the 1906 Pure Food & Drug act.

It's a flavor bottle, and you're correct about Harrisburg. Are there 3 arrows?

Is there further embossing on the heel?

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[Troutmanhambone]

Thanks for the info surf. Yes, 3 arrows. What do you mean exactly by embossing?

 

[Sheperdess]

The "raised" lettering on the bottle are embossed.

 

[Troutmanhambone]

Ah okay. Coca cola bottling works is embossed on the heel and the arrow is embossed on the bottom

 

[CoilyGirl]

What a great find!

 

[Troutmanhambone]

Thank you

 

[surf]

Hey Troutman,

Chapman Root and the Root Glass Co. were early and major bottle suppliers to Coca-Cola. http://visions.indstate.edu:8888/cdm/ref/collection/vchs/id/576 It was Earl Dean of Root that designed the iconic hobbleskirt Coca-Cola bottle.

Coca Cola « Design

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[Troutmanhambone]

Is it possible to get an exact year of when it was made?

 

[surf]

Short of locating and searching the Root archives, I don't see how, given the present information. We can come close, but exact year is a pretty tall order, lacking a date mark.

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[Troutmanhambone]

Glad you know so much about this. Thanks a lot. So you know it's 1913+?. I read that they changed the bottle design in 1917 to a different shape. Was this made before then?

 

[surf]

Hey Troutman,

Your bottle is not one that contained Coca-Cola. It's a flavor bottle. I believe you're confusing the advent of the hobble skirt, or contour bottle in 1915-1916.

Here's a Coca-Cola bottle timeline. BOTTLE HISTORY

The flavor bottles were a completely different container of effervescence. They did not conform to the same patents or guidelines used by Coca-Cola. They were the property of the local bottler, and could be changed, or redesigned at his pleasure. There are numerous handsome variants of the flavor bottles: Soda Water and Flavor bottles

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