Vernors Ginger Ale 150th B-Day

[SODABOB]

Leon

Do you remember this from earlier about your Graham bottles? All of your bottles have the EG

 

[hemihampton]

Reminder:

The Food & Drug Act bottles with VGA embossed on the front (like the one I recently purchased) cannot date any earlier than 1906-1907

But you said mine was a 1920's graham bottle didn't you?

 

[hemihampton]

Leon

We know these three bottles were made by the Graham Glass Company in the 1920s, and that at least one of them apparently has the VGA on the base. Please post pictures of the entire bottles and/or describe how they are embossed in the portions we cannot see in these pictures. And do all of them have the VGA on the base?

The thing is, because one or all of them have VGA on the base, and they are from the 1920s, that tells us the VGA symbol was used fairly late. Whereas what appear to be earlier? bottles, like some of the examples that Keith posted, apparently don't have the VGA symbol. In other words, its starting to look as if the VGA bottles are later and that the Non-VGA bottles are earlier.

This whole comment above has me confused, what are you talking about? LEON.

 

[hemihampton]

Bob, I think you messed up when you said this comment above you said "We know these 3 bottles" when you should of said these 2 bottles. By saying this you kept adding or including my older 1906 non graham & non 1920's bottle with the other 2 later bottles confusing me. ???????????? LEON.

 

[hemihampton]

Bob, Yes I do have codes or #'s on 2 of my early Vernor's bottles. Hard to see them but here's some pics. LEON

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All three bottles were made by The Graham Glass Company

( I'm currently double-checking the rest of the coding )

I think I see our confusion. I said 2 bottles had codes but posted 3 different pics so you said all 3 1920's Grahams because you seen 3 pics thinking 3 different bottles. They were not 3 different bottles. Only 2 different bottles. I posted the same bottle twice because it's letters were extremely faint & hard to see. LEON.

 

[SODABOB]

10-4

Let me try this again ...

1. I'm not saying every bottle with the VGA monogram was made in the 1920s. I'm still trying to determine when the VGA monogram was first introduced.

2. I am saying that any bottle marked with EG 25 was made by the Graham Glass Company in 1925.

3. I am saying that any bottle with the Food & Drug Act statement cannot date any earlier than 1906-1907

 

[hemihampton]

OK, I agree. What I'm saying is since the 1906 statement bottle is at least 1906 or 7 & does have the monogram & this monogram lasted into the 1920's Wouldn't this make Keiths tooled top no 1906 statement & no monogram earlier then 1906. I think it has a label with no monogram.? LEON.



P.S. my 3 pics instead of 2 DeReailed the whole conversation. sorry about that.

 

[SODABOB]

OK, I agree. What I'm saying is since the 1906 statement bottle is at least 1906 or 7 & does have the monogram & this monogram lasted into the 1920's Wouldn't this make Keiths tooled top no 1906 statement & no monogram earlier then 1906. I think it has a label with no monogram.? LEON.

Yes! At this juncture I do think Keith's Non-VGA bottle is earlier than the Food & Drug bottles. But just how much earlier, I can't say at the moment - and not sure we'll ever know unless we can solve the C.G. CO. marks.

 

[hemihampton]

OK, Let me know when you solve it. THANKS, LEON.

 

[SODABOB]

I/we may never be able to determine exactly when Keith's Non-VGA / C.G. CO. bottle was made, but I'll bet a nickle it was sometime between 1900 and 1906