Posted 8 years ago
SpiritBear
(813 items)
In the first 5 antique bottles I found, thus kick-starting this hobby, 1 was a 1922 Paul's.
Paul's Drinks of Muskegon started in 1917 according to a second-hand source, and they were gone by 1960 based on my findings. (Latest bottle I had dug of theirs, which I traded for an ACL bear bottle, was 1958.)
Paul's Drinks I know did at least Strawberry-flavor, but I think they had other flavors as well. In the late 1950s, Sun-Rise (which is an ACL bottle) came out and replaced this line here in Muskegon.
Both Paul's Drinks and Sun-Rise are Coca-Cola owned (C on base of earlier ones, and PROPERTY OF COCA-COLA on later.) I'm told that Paul, albeit I cannot verify this, is the man who held control over the Muskegon-area operations.
The first bottle (left, in gold highlighting) was one of the first bottles I'd ever found-- Variation A to me, it should be Variant B as the one next to it has a letter A where this one has nothing at all. Lol.
Regardless, both green are from ROOT Glass Company in 1922. I cannot find any evidence of Paul's existence before 1922.
Next is one given to me by my neighbour who was gonna toss it out-- a ROOT-made "transition-style" (as I call it, adding in clear glass and the protective rim) from 1930.
Then we have my latest edition-- a 1947 Owen-Illinois-made bottle!
A 1953 Owen-Illinois-made bottle (next) is their next slight change in design.
The design remains identical till at least 1958.
I've spent 2 years trying to get one from each decade, and now I need only a circa-1917 example to complete it-- if indeed they had their own bottles at that point. Shards are of others I've found, and I'm told one was seen in amber (possibly an early one?)
The 1950s was when Paul's experienced its biggest sales, so it is most common from that decade.
Caps are not original.
IT IS ALSO A FALSE STATEMENT TO SAY THAT BOTTLES THAT DON'T HAVE "COCA-COLA" IN SCRIPT DID NOT EVER HOLD COCA-COLA. LABELED EXAMPLES AND FULL EXAMPLES PROVE OTHERWISE. BUT THESE I AM 99% SURE DID NOT HOLD COCA-COLA. Just thought I'd throw that out there. If anyone wants to try and argue against me, his comment will be deleted.
Nice SpiritBear,
Thought I had seen pretty much everything that was bottled by The Coca Cola Company. I never seen wanna these. Cool find, I have been digging bottles with my wife numerous times ( it's a blast ) That's where my green diamond bottle came from.
Thank you, Dave Kelejian.
The Coca-Cola Company's website, when I looked at it last year and the year before, said that these are known as "flavor-bottles." I've never heard a collector use the term, though.
It also said that these didn't show up till the 1930s.
After much research, I really got into "flavor bottles," especially from my town. And I commented to the Company on my research so that they may hopefully update their site.
Most towns that had a Coca-Cola Bottling Company in them put out a number of different drinks. They may not have used "scripted" bottles for different "flavors," but they used block-letter straight-sides for both (paper labels, which rarely are seen, tell the flavor on a generic bottle.)
Then they decided, "Let us be unique and make different-looking bottles. These will be less confusing to our consumers." And so they did, often putting the flavor on the caps which rarely survive.
And thus were born what must be a few thousand different bottles. This is a more heavily embossed style. Their water bottles were usually less-embossed.
In a nut shell, that's what I know (you can make a huge collection of these things for relatively cheap.)
Your green bottle is quite the score. I love digging. (As for doing it with your wife, that is absolutely wonderful!!)
Thanks again SpiritBear! Yup she is a keeper!
"Every Swallow Pure" In all my years collecting that has to be in the top ten for slogans on bottles, that I have seen.
Thanks for sharing!
When I first pulled one out of the lake and wiped the algae-sludge off, seeing that I thought, "Was it some kind of alcohol?" My mom shared my initial sentiments. LOL.