Old coca cola bottle.

sonoman06 · May 4, 2012

I found this old coke bottle yesterday. I found it inside a cinder block, which was part of an old foundation. I know the bottle was placed inside the wall when it was built because the top portion of the wall fell over recently to expose the bottle. Does anyone know how to date these bottles, besides the age of the wall? The markings on it are
Bottom: La Plata MD ( the town I live in ) and an f

The building was built before 1932

cambria09 · May 6, 2012

sonoman06 said:
I found this old coke bottle yesterday. I found it inside a cinder block, which was part of an old foundation. I know the bottle was placed inside the wall when it was built because the top portion of the wall fell over recently to expose the bottle. Does anyone know how to date these bottles, besides the age of the wall? The markings on it are
Bottom: La Plata MD ( the town I live in ) and an f

The building was built before 1932

Hello Sonoman06. There should be four numbers on the side near the base, the first two are the year. We have one like yours and it says "56-17" so mine is 1956 vintage. Nice find.

sonoman06 · May 6, 2012

Yup 53_06 thanks buddy. Wierd how it ended up In a cinder block from back then. The only explanation is someone found it the day before I was there and set it In there. Thank again.

davyo · May 6, 2012

coke bottle

i hava a small one that says , trademark registered dec 5 1923 on the front of the bottle , on the bottom it says San Francisco ca.

Banjomountain · May 7, 2012

Coke Bottles

That is a nice bottle sonoman06! Interesting how a '53 bottle would be there. I have heard of stories of construction workers putting coke bottles in walls and other places during construction. I worked on some old railroad cars once and we found a bottle inside the walls of a baggage car with a letter inside it. It was from the guys at the assembly plant in the late 40s. We only found the bottle because the walls had rusted out and we were trying to knock loose the rust and the bottle fell out.

If that building was built before 1932, the only type of coke bottle that was in use at that time was the "Christmas" bottle. That is what coke collectors refer to the bottles with the "Pat Dec 25, 1923" date on them like davyo described. Those bottles were actually made/used between 1924-1937. The bottle you found is the next generation bottle after the Christmas bottle. That design was used until the mid/late 1950s.

sonoman06 · May 7, 2012

Cool, thanks for the info.

IMShooter · May 7, 2012

hobbleskirt cokes are cool.

here's a great page about them (and other cokes):
http://www.antiquebottles.com/coke/

If the bottom of the bottle has a town name and lines between the words, it's a repro. If it's in large letters w/o lines, it's real.

some towns are more collectible than others (barring someone collecting stuff from that particular area). The smaller towns that didn't last long and are now long defunct usually bring more.

davyo · May 9, 2012

My coke bottle

This is one i got in about 1980, it says under the coca cola name , it says , min. contents 6 fl, ozs other side says trade mark registered dec 25 1923 on the bottom in big letters no lines it say san Francisco ca.

davyo · May 9, 2012

davyo said:
This is one i got in about 1980, it says under the coca cola name , it says , min. contents 6 fl, ozs other side says trade mark registered dec 25 1923 on the bottom in big letters no lines it say san Francisco ca.[/QUOTE

Is it real or a repo

Bonesquat · May 10, 2012

I found one kind of like yours is a cotton field. Mine is dated 1948. Couldn't believe it was intact after so many years of plowing.

IMShooter · May 11, 2012

the one with dec. 25 on it is called a "Christmas Coke". San Fran hobbleskirts run 1-5bucks. Closer to the 1...

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