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I simply don't have the time, energy or knowledge to answer many of the questions submitted here. Please click here to go to my. I know of no coke products being sold there before the war. Observe the base of the bottle for the mold code.

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The irradiated color is NOT natural……no Coke bottles of this style were made in such a color originally. Some newer collectors may be confused by these types of bottles appearing on online auctions, at flea markets and antique malls in these odd colors. Contrary to what some sellers may say, the irradiation does not really INCREASE the value of old Coke bottles. It is a form of alteration, and considered to be DAMAGE by many experienced bottle collectors. This is also happening with alot of other types of glass……bottles, insulators, pattern glass, etc. Please see my page on here. Bottles from larger cities are usually easiest to find, and, in general, the smaller the city, the scarcer the bottles. A common misconception is that the city name indicates where the bottle was actually made. In general, the city name, in most cases, has nothing to do with the location where the bottle itself was manufactured. Some of the larger glass manufacturers made Coke bottles and other soda bottles such as Pepsi, etc for hundreds of different cities around the United States. ADVERTISEMENT The list below is certainly not complete, and I hope to eventually add more information as time allows. Chattanooga Glass Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga was a HEAVY producer of Coca-Cola bottles. Chattanooga Glass Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee. See a number of pics showing this frequently encountered mark at that page. This firm probably made more Coke bottles than any other glass manufacturer, at least during the 1940s and 1950s. Chattanooga would possibly be second place in total production. Fábrica de Envases de Vidrio S. I have a Coke bottle with the mark which is date coded for the year 2006. Graham Glass Company, Evansville, Indiana. Graham Glass Company, Evansville, Indiana. This mark was reported on the heel of a hobbleskirt style Coca-Cola bottle, although this picture shows it on a Clorox bottle. CO…………………Inter-State Glass Company, Kansas City, Missouri. Laurens Glass Works, Laurens, South Carolina. Initials as reported to me on the bottom of a circa 1910s-1920s amber straight-side Coke bottle. This was apparently a short-lived local bottling operation, not a glassmaker. Reed Glass Company, Rochester, New York. Reed Glass Company, Rochester, NY. Vitro Packaging LLC, Monterrey, Mexico. This mark is seen on huge numbers of containers imported into the United States, including soda bottles as well as many other types of food and beverage containers. Click here to go to the main. Please click here to go to my. Here is a website with lots of info on collecting Coke bottles: All comments are moderated, so will not appear on this site immediately. Please, no posts asking about value of an item. I simply don't have the time, energy or knowledge to answer many of the questions submitted here. Some may be answered directly by email, others posted on the site. Thank you for your patience and understanding! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Va on the bottom. Anyone with any thoughts please respond!!!! Hello David, you have a very informative website. I am a wwii reenactor and would love to use some authentic coke bottles for my display. What is the best way to clean out those years of grime and dirt from the inside. Also where can I get new made old style caps that I can recap them with. Also with pat D bottles is it usually a good guess that the 2 numbets to the right of makers stamp would be manufacture dates.. I have a 90 C 41… 1941? And a 6 owens symbol 51… 1951? Thank you for your time and any info you can give me. ED Hi Edward, In my opinion there are several ways to go about cleaning old bottles. The methods can be used in unison complementing each other. First of all, after rinsing out the dirt from the inside, I recommend using a mixture of water and oxalic acid in a plastic 5-gallon bucket. In any case, mix a couple cans of Bar keepers Friend with lukewarm or room temp water in a 5-gallon bucket. Or pour an entire container of Deck Cleaner and mix carefully with water in the bucket. Soak the bottles for at least 24 hours in the bucket, completely immersed, using plastic or rubber gloves when handling. After removing, fill the bottle partially with small size aquarium gravel and water and shake gently. This should help remove some of the encrusted stains and soil from inside the bottle. You can also clean the outside of the bottle with all-purpose cleaner and water, rubbing well with a damp cloth or very fine 0000 steel wool steel wool does not scratch glass. About the date codes on your bottles……. Not all glass companies always followed that configuration but in many cases they did. You might check out this. Hope this will help! I have a very old bottle that I have never been able to find any information on. It has a very bubbled greenish glass, straight sides, and the Coca-Cola emblem down at the bottom. The only identifying marks are the city which is Atlanta GA, the number 1373 on the bottom and it says this bottle not sold. Has anyone come across anything like this before? If so I would love more information! I have a Coca-Cola bottle hobble skirt style. So according to the information from this website, the embossed code on the bottle reads 3 C 44, meaning it was made at the Chattanooga Glass Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1944. The first number was a little confusing to me but I think I understand. MCFG2017, yes, you are correct. On many bottles, please keep in mind there can be variations in the way embossed code numbers are arranged, depending on the glass company, the time period, style of bottle, etc. It is a very confusing subject, to be sure! David I have 3 coke bottles that have Greenville, sc on the bottom. It also has 63L51 on the side. Do you have any info about these bottles. It does have a 7 in a circle, says not to be refilled, has a trademark, says no refill and no deposit, AND has a verticle line with three horizontal lines. I would love to find out where this was made. Best regards, David Hi, I have found a few wartime vintage coca cola bottles here in Newfoundland, not far from an American Base set up in 1941. It has on the base E-UGB-44 over the number 24. I assume the 44 is the year as all the other bottles cluster around that date, it is a green glass bottle with just the Coal-Cola and TRADE MARK and no waist mark. Another bottle also marked TRADE MARK, is a colorless bottle with no base marks. Do you have any idea who or where the E-UGB-44 bottle was made. I know that British and Canadian vessels did call at this port during the war? Newfoundland was a dependency of the UK during the war. I know of no coke products being sold there before the war. Thanks, Dave Roberts Thanks! Found another UGB COCA COLA LTD and two groups of very faint numbers 44 and?? All the characters on the base are faint. There is a blank field where all the details go between the skirt and the shoulder. Would you know when a printed and not embossed bottle would have been made by UGB? Helene, the positioning of date and mold codes on Coke bottles varied over the years. On your particular bottle, the date code is the left pair of digits, and apparently stands for 1963. Coke required date codes to the left of the dash from circa 1952-1990s. See this page by researcher Bill Lockhart which has a brief entry on Coke bottle codes. Although the page is concerning the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, other bottle makers would have also complied with their guidelines for mark placement: Your bottle was made by Latchford Glass Company of Los Angeles. They made tons of beer and soda bottles in the early years of the 20th century. However, here are some thoughts. The site would soon be overloaded with thousands of pictures, and would eventually make the pages somewhat slower to download, especially for those with older computers. They typically appear in shades of purple or dark odd ambers. Also, I might suggest you try posting queries on the site, which is a great discussion forum for collectors of all kinds of bottles and jars. There are many knowledgeable people who frequent that site and who might offer their input on the subject of irradiated Coke bottles. Are there ANY markings of any kind along the lower heel area of the bottle? Occasionally there could be a glassmaker mark along the heel that is very faint. Perhaps someone will chime in and post an answer to your question! I am under the vague impression that the total number of different American towns and cities that had their name embossed on the bottom of Coke bottles at one time or another over the years ranges somewhere between 2000 and 4000! I am hoping that any Coke collectors who have more information on this subject will chime in and educate us!

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This should help remove dating pepsi bottles of the encrusted stains and soil from si the bottle. Other information on this website usually must be reviewed to fine tune the information about a specific bottle. All this adds to the fascination with bottle making, but makes systematic dating similar to solving Rubik's cube - ostensibly simple on the surface but complex in con. Vitro Packaging LLC, Monterrey, Mexico. It has a very bubbled greenish glass, straight sides, and the Coca-Cola emblem down at the bottom. The next year, Pepsi was sold in six-ounce bottlesand sales increased to.