Old Coke Bottle Bottom Markings

Bottles issued by certain plants will show symbol of coco cola on the base of the glass bottles.

Old coke bottle bottom markings. Antique glass bottles identification tips color. If you saved old coca cola bottles you may be in luck. Plant 20 to the left of the makers mark. Coke bottles manufactured in certain plants started to script the trademark on both the shoulders.

Some of the vintage versions are now going for over 100 000. Here we tell you how to decode the age of the antique bottle you possess. Why not 1931 or 1951. Colors like cobalt blue was used to color bottles right from 1870s to the.

Dark green beer bottles were used by many brewers in the 1800s. The dates to the right of the mark are the dates the bottle was made. As indicated by the number 7 to the left of the logo it was made at their main glass plant o i plant 7 located at alton illinois. Another tip to date coke bottles is above the base sides of the bottles are molded.

This is a typical example as seen on the bottom of an emerald green bottle bearing a date code of 1952. The color of a bottle can be used as a reference to determine the age of the bottle. This webpage is intended to help novice collectors and non collectors better identify describe and date the bottles they encounter. And laurens s c glass works bottles.

According to the auction house morphy auctions some vintage coca cola bottles from the early 1910s can be worth around 100 000 150 000. Old bottle identification and dating guide. Bottle dating is approximate and just intended to give a relative placement in bottle making history. These are cup bottom molds figure 18.

On other coke bottles the side molds end above the base which is a wide plate on the bottom visible from the side of the bottle. There are many collectors of antique and vintage coke bottles who try to find examples with various city town state embossings marked on the bottom for instance louisville ky or decatur ills or tucson ariz. The bottle is brown in color and has what appears to be raised diamonds surrounding the bottle there is a flat surface in the shape of a diamond on the front of the bottle which looks to be where a label may have been on the back of the bottle is a flat square for another possible label above that is what looks to be a chest armor with a ball above it on the bottom it has d 18 then a triangle. A is 1942 b is 1958 c is 1954 d in diamond is dominion glass canada antiquerose 4 years ago thanks for the loves.