5 CENTS Universal Store Bottle -age?

[NYlakebottles]

Found this diving buried in muck in an area that has resulted in 1920-1950s bottles. Haven't found much info on this type of milk bottle, there's a 45 on bottom, but a quart of milk in the 40's cost more than 5 cents? Any way to determine age of this bottle?

 

[nhpharm]

1945 sounds about right...the 5 cents is the deposit on the bottle only and you'd get that back when you returned the bottle.

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

Found this diving buried in muck in an area that has resulted in 1920-1950s bottles. Haven't found much info on this type of milk bottle, there's a 45 on bottom, but a quart of milk in the 40's cost more than 5 cents? Any way to determine age of this bottle?

I have the matching Half Pint! It is 1953.
ROBBYBOBBY64.

 

[NYlakebottles]

1945 sounds about right...the 5 cents is the deposit on the bottle only and you'd get that back when you returned the bottle.

Thanks!

 

[Harry Pristis]

Florida was special, with its own deposit bottles:

 

[K6TIM]

Thanks!

I remember in the 1950's soda bottles were returnable for 3 cent a bottle,and the quartes were 5 cents a bottle.I made a killing all summer long turning returning soda bottles Iwas 8 years old! Those were the days!

 

[UncleBruce]

I remember in the 1950's soda bottles were returnable for 3 cent a bottle,and the quartes were 5 cents a bottle.I made a killing all summer long turning returning soda bottles Iwas 8 years old! Those were the days!

We thought we got a pay raise when the deposits went up to 5 cents.

 

[Wildcat wrangler]

It looks like it’s from whenever they shifted from round bottles to square- so they would fit in a case? That looks half round a d half square. Am I seeing that wrong? It was around 1944 that they were shifting to square milk bottles.

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I just saw your pix at the very top- that’s pretty round! I’d say before 1944, but just by a tiny bit, because a nickel was a lot back then…. Especially considering they were putting milk in round bottles since around the turn of the century and a nickel was really a lot back then? Just an uneducated guess, but it does seem logical.

 

[Wildcat wrangler]

I have a question, because the lake here, for the first time since it was filled back in the late 30’s- shockingly looks like this- even worse now , as this was a month ago:

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So the thought occurred that things are going to show up that have been covered for a long time- how do you locate what’s under the muck? Do you use a probe?
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[CanadianBottles]

It looks like it’s from whenever they shifted from round bottles to square- so they would fit in a case? That looks half round a d half square. Am I seeing that wrong? It was around 1944 that they were shifting to square milk bottles.

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I just saw your pix at the very top- that’s pretty round! I’d say before 1944, but just by a tiny bit, because a nickel was a lot back then…. Especially considering they were putting milk in round bottles since around the turn of the century and a nickel was really a lot back then? Just an uneducated guess, but it does seem logical.

You'd be surprised at how far back they used 5 cent deposits. The farther back you go the more five cents was worth, but the more bottles were worth as well. In BC there's a company which marked the deposits on a lot of their bottles. These are crude applied lip internal thread and Codd bottles, and they're marked with three or five cent deposits - and one bottle from a branch location in a more remote city is marked with a whopping twelve cent deposit, more than the deposits are today!
In the case of the milk bottle being discussed, it's almost certainly from 1945.