Repaint?

[OsiaBoyce]

Marked:

LGW
5

Two years before what I've read as to when Laurens Glass Works started using the acl process.

Maybe they started in 1935 instead of 7?
Test run?
Proto type?

Repaint?

Yes, says RanMan?

 

[madman]

naw man i think its just an early acl ! is the rc debossed? or embossed?

 

[OsiaBoyce]

Think so? Got an OI dated 37 and all my LGWs are mid to late 40s.

De, as is the OI.

 

[madman]

ive dug those early rcs in a 1939 dump, but also found bottles there from as far back as 35 i dug lots didnt think of checking the dates tossed um the paint was wasted, so what yer sayin is that bottle dates 35?

 

[madman]

ok i get what your saying whatever it is nice bottle!

 

[acls]

These debossed RCs were originally used for paper labels. My guess is that when RC started using the ACL process they used their back stock of these bottles. So in other words the bottle was made several years prior to the label being screened on. No proof, just a theory.

 

[madman]

thanks acls!

 

[morbious_fod]

The first acl was released in 1933, and was the Jumbo A Super Cola bottle, so it is very likely that Royal Crown started using acls by 1935.

Also the LGW dates usually have the first number of the year then LGW and then the second number of the year, which in this case would be 3LGW5. It is more likely that this is a 1936 bottle as Royal Crown Cola was copyrighted in 1936, and your five may indeed be the mold number or something.

 

[morbious_fod]

Jumbo A Super Cola ad from September 21st 1934 (wow that's neat seeing as it was the 21st yesterday), proudly showing the acl.

 

[Bottle Junkie 56]

I agree with Matt (acls), bottle stock was older than process. It is also possible it is from '35 as I've heard stories over the years that Laurens and others were playing around with the silk screen process as early as 1933. I've been told the first screens were actually made from silk but were not at all durable. We may never know the answer to this and thousands of other questions as I'd bet anyone who worked at Laurens (and elsewhere) have long passed on. I'll have to give my RC's a look-see Pat C'ya! Randy