Found a straight sided coke bottle

[VirginiaBikeGirl]

They're cutting a new road for a park in my town. Goes right through a battle site and colonial farmland. There was an old lady size gap in the fence, soooo I searched. LOL, I'll be searching it often. It will go about a half mile.

I found this bottle on the surface! The Coca Cola Bottle Works opened in 1905. And I think this style of bottle didn't last much past that? An enlightenment appreciated. I guess I'd like to know the value. Though I never sell anything.

 

[Rammjäger]

Hi, did you try with Google Lens to ID it?

 

[VirginiaBikeGirl]

Hi, did you try with Google Lens to ID it?

Yes, it's pretty general. I put it up on the bottle diggers Subreddit, and they say the Washington bottle works opened in 1905. So it's somewhere between 1905-1915.

 

[Brent1986]

Does it have numbers down on the skirt of the bottle? Toward the bottom should have two sets of numbers. One set of numbers is a date code and the other is the mold number. Hoping this helps you.

 

[VirginiaBikeGirl]

Does it have numbers down on the skirt of the bottle? Toward the bottom should have two sets of numbers. One set of numbers is a date code and the other is the mold number. Hoping this helps you.

Thanks. The only numbers I see are the 1502 on the bottom.

 

[hoser]

Well, it's for certain it is an oldie. Nice save.

 

[BullBat]

You've probably seen this but just in case, your bottle is the first one pictured on this site. ( http://www.chosi.org/bottles/coke/coke.htm ) It doesn't give a date range, but it gives all of the proper descriptors so that you might be able to speak "bottle" if you find a collector who might help you.

 

[VirginiaBikeGirl]

You've probably seen this but just in case, your bottle is the first one pictured on this site. ( http://www.chosi.org/bottles/coke/coke.htm ) It doesn't give a date range, but it gives all of the proper descriptors so that you might be able to speak "bottle" if you find a collector who might help you.

This is awesome. Thanks!

 

[GLASSHOPPER1955]

I'd say 1910-1918 or so. Even though the first Hobbleskirt Cokes were patented November 1915 these were still used until a few years later, as the new designs didn't get used till at least 1917. Always a good day finding a SS Coke though! Info: https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/SouthwestCoke5.pdf

 

[VirginiaBikeGirl]

I'd say 1910-1918 or so. Even though the first Hobbleskirt Cokes were patented November 1915 these were still used until a few years later, as the new designs didn't get used till at least 1917. Always a good day finding a SS Coke though! Info: https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/SouthwestCoke5.pdf

Thanks, the subject is way outside my experience.

 

[Jamflicker]

Awesome find. I started collecting straight sided Coke bottles. I looked it up in Bill Porters book and it's more of a common straight sided Coke bottle. Probably worth $25-30.

 

[metaladdict]

They're cutting a new road for a park in my town. Goes right through a battle site and colonial farmland. There was an old lady size gap in the fence, soooo I searched. LOL, I'll be searching it often. It will go about a half mile.

I found this bottle on the surface! The Coca Cola Bottle Works opened in 1905. And I think this style of bottle didn't last much past that? An enlightenment appreciated. I guess I'd like to know the value. Though I never sell anything.

That's a real nice coke bottle!

 

[pescadore]

Those are very cool !!! I remember as a child I found a bottle dump on some of out property that my father was building on. There was actually a Coca-Cola bottling place near out home town and all the intact bottles I found came from there. I put the bottles under our house to keep them and someone took them.