Coca-Cola Bottles

Coca-Cola bottles are perhaps the most distinctively shaped containers in history, but the earliest Coke bottles (1899-1916) weren’t standardized and are therefore perhaps the most collectible (it was up to individual bottlers to decide on shape and color). In 1915, however, after an extensive design contest, the company invented and patented its distinctive ‘contour’ shaped bottle, which endured for most of the century.