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Is this pre-1900? - 4/28/2004 9:57:03 PM    john   Posts: 10 Joined: 3/8/2004 Status: offline Found this on my street where they are doing repairs on the water main. My side walk is one big pile of dirt, but hey, I pulled this out of the pile, as the luck of the Irish would have it. It is 8 x 2 1/2 inches. It says horozontally on the front "C.C.S. & M. CO. / 270 TO 274 ROYAL ST. / NEW ORLEANS/ THIS BOTTLE IS NEVER SOLD" "This bottle is never sold!" I got quite a kick out of that! What does it mean? Like a deposit or something? The bottom of the bottle has a crescent, which might be a reference to this being the "crescent city." The seam stops well before the neck and the the look of the "head" just looks so odd that I thought it might belong on this forum and not the post-1900 forum. Post #: 1

RE: Is this pre-1900? - 4/28/2004 11:53:33 PM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1160 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline Hi John, this bottle is a Hutchison type bottle. It contained soda. I am not familiar with the crescent moon mark on the base. The head you refer to is known as a blob top. That style of lip was used mainly on sodas, beers, areated water, anything that was bottled under pressure. If the seams stop below the lip, it is probably pre 1900. The automatic bottle machine was invented in 1903 but I'm sure there was a transition period of sorts. I believe bottles being blown in a mold was a thing of the past around 1910. The phrase "Bottle Never Sold" meant you were buying what was in the bottle and not the bottle itself. The bottle could then be refilled by the bottle manufacturer. Hope this helps, Kelley (in reply to john) Post #: 2

RE: Is this pre-1900? - 4/29/2004 12:21:34 AM    john   Posts: 10 Joined: 3/8/2004 Status: offline Thanks for all that info Kelley. That is pretty interesting. I think it is really neat that a bottle over a 100 years old was just poking out of a pile of dirt in front of my house!! Now I think I have the bug for old bottles!! -John (in reply to john) Post #: 3

RE: Is this pre-1900? hey John - 4/29/2004 2:41:09 PM    treasure rat   Posts: 46 Joined: 11/12/2003 Status: offline grab yourself a metal detector and hit those dirt piles while u can...could be alot of coins etc...laying in that dirt...may even want to sift some of it..if you have the time... (in reply to john) Post #: 4

RE: Is this pre-1900? - 4/29/2004 3:48:31 PM    john   Posts: 10 Joined: 3/8/2004 Status: offline Hmmm, that sounds good to me, Treasure Rat. Coins are what I mainly collect. I'll have to look a little closer at that dirt pile if it doesn't rain tonight. (in reply to john) Post #: 5

RE: Is this pre-1900? - 4/30/2004 4:24:42 AM    Relicsnstuff   Posts: 46 Joined: 6/23/2003 From: New Orleans Area Status: offline Hi John, C.C.S. stands for Crescent City Soda, and was in production in New Orleans from 1870's on through about 1908. I have the story on the company and wil post it for you as I get the time. your bottle likely dates around 1880's. The 1870's bottles were squat types and the 1900's were crown tops. As for value they are worth about 10.00 as they come up often in New Orleans digs. There is also a cobalt one which is pretty rare. Still a nice bottle from old New Orleans. Relicsnstuff (in reply to john) Post #: 6

RE: Is this pre-1900? - 5/1/2004 11:56:32 PM    john   Posts: 10 Joined: 3/8/2004 Status: offline Alright! Thanks Relicsnstuff. I wonder what the "& M" stands for after CCS? I'd love to read the whatever info you have for them. I haven't much about them on the web. -john (in reply to john) Post #: 7

RE: Is this pre-1900? - 5/6/2004 6:12:33 PM    Relicsnstuff   Posts: 46 Joined: 6/23/2003 From: New Orleans Area Status: offline John; I was a little off Its Crescent City Seltzer and Mineral Water Manufactory. The dates I have for the Royal street address is 1877-1894. I have information in another book i will have to dig up. C.C.S. was very popular and had a strong business going Hope this helps Relicsnstuff (in reply to john) Post #: 8

RE: Is this pre-1900? - 10/28/2005 8:19:18 AM    58froggy   Posts: 55 Joined: 9/19/2005 From: New Concord, OH Status: offline I recently found this same crescent 'indent' not embossed out, if my terminology is correct, on the bottoms of 2 medicine bottles. Any information as to whether this would have been produced by the same company? Doug (in reply to john) Post #: 9

RE: Is this pre-1900? - 10/28/2005 2:25:49 PM    KentOhio   Posts: 732 Joined: 9/13/2004 Status: offline This doesn't relate to the Hutchinson, but I have an indented crescent on the base of some of my druggist bottles too. I think it's the mark of a glass factory, but I haven't researched it. There was probably a Crescent Glass Works or something like that. (in reply to john) Post #: 10

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