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two nice crownies

Ronvae, Re the Quaker bottle I'd say your dating is right, a pretty wide range. Some Co's continued using embossed bottles into the 50's but most had switched to ACL's. I think it would be a deco soda in that it had a specifically embossed design Re the term "deco", I had heard it used...
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- Post #7
- Jun 6, 2005
- Forum: Sodas - Embossed, Paper Label and ACLs.
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two nice crownies

Thanks to all for the (+) feedback! Re. photos - The bottles stand on a frosted glass base and light it from below with 2 - 50 watt bulbs about 6 inches below the glass with a dimmer switch so I can get the bottom to glow and blend with the amount of backlight. I use a peice of white painted...
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- Post #6
- Jun 6, 2005
- Forum: Sodas - Embossed, Paper Label and ACLs.
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two nice crownies

Here are a couple of recent bottle finds: > "it" - clear, 6 oz., three sided body with slogan "The Whole World Wants it" embossed 3 times in large letters " embossed in small lettering on each of the three sides. "it" is embossed in large letters three times on shoulder. "3 Rivers" on heel and...
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- Jun 4, 2005
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Sodas - Embossed, Paper Label and ACLs.
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1920,s orange crush (green glass)

Hobbydigger, Green Orange Crush bottles are nice and pretty scarce compared to the clear ones. In the old ads (1920's & 30's) they refer to this bottle as the "Krinkly Bottle", the bottle that Orange Crush Co. used almost exclusively during those years to bottle Orange Crush. I've collected...
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- Post #7
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Sodas - Embossed, Paper Label and ACLs.
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New Website for Soda Bottle Collectors

Shane, Thanks so much for your positive response, and I agree with you, Decos are COOL! It's great that the Blue Bird soda you have is a hard to find variant - almost all of the Blue Birds that I've seen are the ones with the flying bird (in photo on right) not the top hat variant. Excellent...
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- Post #4
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Antique Bottle Shows and Club Activities
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New Website for Soda Bottle Collectors

I just published a website "Deco Soda Bottles" which you can get to at http://www.decosodas.com It covers those fancy embossed soda bottles from the 1920's and 30's. It has over 200 bottles photographed + a little bottle history which you can view as a slideshow in the "Photos" section This...
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- May 23, 2005
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Antique Bottle Shows and Club Activities