Canada's rarest Coca-Cola hobble skirt... The D19

[Canadacan]

I came across another early hobble skirt last summer that I forgot to post. It's probably a pre 1931 by Consumers glass...it has the inverted triangle with a C in it, it also has no patent year present.











No patent year, I notice the lettering appears much bolder than the early Dominion glass bottles.



Here is the rare ice blue with the 1915 patent year and no D19....mold #1, the Consumers glass no patent, and the D19 no patent ...mold #1

 

[CanadianBottles]

I saw one of those D19's the other day, I bought some local druggist bottles off a guy on Kijiji and he had one of those for sale as well. It was a darker shade of green than any of the ones in this thread, but I don't think it was quite as dark as an American Coke. His was a bit beat up and he wanted something like fifty dollars for it, so I ended up passing on it. It may not have been a bad price for that bottle, I'm not sure, but that's more than I've ever spent on a bottle and I don't really collect national brands in the first place. It's probably still there so if any of you want to head up to Ottawa to buy it I can PM you his contact info.

 

[Canadacan]

Yea I suppose $50 might have been ok...was the add still up for the bottle?...I wouldn't mind seeing a photo of it. Back in April I went to a local show and found another D19 it was in really nice shape but was marked mold #1 which is already the one I have...it was only $10 bucks!, best deal of the show I figured but few people realize what they are looking at, it would have been an upgrade to mine but how can you put a value on a bottle you dug yourself.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Yeah I just checked and the ad is still up, here's the picture of it. Doesn't look quite as green there as I remembered it, maybe it was the light.

 

[Canadacan]

Yes I suppose it is green tinged, definitely a D19!...it may be picking up a bit of color from the bottle beside it, I had that problem photographing in this thread where my bottle picked up color from the bottle beside..lol. RCO posted a shard at the beginning of this post that is definitely green...hard to know for sure but it looks like his was from Consumers glass.

 

[CanadianBottles]

No I'm fairly certain it was at least that green in real life, I remember it being greener. It didn't have anything on the base, only a suction scar.
I should post the other bottles I got that day, Kijiji has suddenly gotten really good for bottles around here. I just missed out on what may have been a fantastic lot of local bottles today, unfortunately. 8 boxes worth dug out of an older section of one of the currently un-diggable dumps. One of the other Ottawa collectors must have snatched that one up really fast.

 

[Canadacan]

Yes your probably right that it is green, all the D19's just have suction scars that I have seen so far. I still would like a green example someday...It would have been interesting to know what the mold # is on that one.
Sometimes I find good stuff on Kijiji too!

 

[Canadacan]

A few weeks back I was at granny & Grump's antiques and amazingly found another D-19!!!!!!, I now have 5 of them ...I had overlooked it at least 2-3 time previously. This time it is as confirmed by my contact who said they come numbered from 1-10....it is #10. The diamond embossing is a little weak and there is barley any visible number 19 inside of it, but the overall condition is fabulous!
One thing that seems unique compared to my other 4 mold number examples is the O's are very much squared off.












And here is a comparison of D-19 #10(left) compared to the 1915 patent (right)...which is mold #1

 

[RCO]

out of curiousity what makes the D 19 the rarest Canadian hobble skirt ? its not the oldest as 1915 patent bottle would be older ? I really can't recall seeing many D 19 or 1915 patent bottles for sale anywhere , so neither appear to be easy to find for sale . whatever reasons there seems to be a period In time ( 1917-1920's ) where canadian coca cola bottles are much harder to find than other years .

 

[Canadacan]

Speculated as the rarest by my contact, but even he even agreed that possibly the patent bottle was rarer...interestingly there is a mold #4 D19 up on ebay right now...priced at BIN for $99 USD.
Here is your bottle RCO...alongside my #6 D19..... identical!...but just has the patent year peened out. It is badly damaged but I'm supposed to have an upgrade on the way.