The terms, "This Bottle Never Sold" indicates the bottle is the property of the local bottler and no one else. You were expected to return the bottle for re-use. The plan did not work out because everyone forgot to return the bottles! So, then they began charging a deposit cost. That worked...
The black glass alone would indicate a poison, or other container of a dangerous content. But, the sparkles may negate all of this! This may be a true mystery. --Michael Elling, Sharon, Tennessee
Thx Bob; I would like to add that the Swankyswig designer, KRAFT FOODS of Chicago also began using ACL 5 oz. glass containers in December 1932. Various flavors of Kraft Cheese Spread were put into reuseable glasses from that time to the present (2024). Swankyswig collectors are also...
Thx Hunter; NEHI/RC family-size bottles were not originated by the franchise. This idea was presented first by the glass factories. After federal sugar rationing ended from the Second World War, family-sized bottles really caught on. Prewar examples are not plentiful, but the challenge to...
Thx Bob; It is important to remember that NEHI's Par-T-Pak flavors were initially issued for alcoholic mixers after repeal of Prohibition in 1933. It was not until later that Par-T-Pak became better known as, "family beverages" with the popularity of the 24 to 32 oz. quart bottle drinks. The...
Hi Bob; I have also heard at the bottle shows, that the number is really a franchise contract number to keep all the bottles consistent to the factory standard. So for a certain brand, the factory standard was kept unchanged throughout the system. --Cordially, MikeEin10C
Thx Bob; When I was a little boy growing up in the 1940s, the men in the barber shop showed me an RC Cola pyramid bottle similar to yours. They told me to shut one eye and look at the front label with the other eye half shut. Then, they said that the yellow lower portion of the label is a real...
Thx Bob; In my collection (begun in 1984), I have a 1934 embossed bottle collectors call, "carbonated crown." and the terms "Royal Crown Beverages," instead of RC Cola. The all-embossed design is very significant with the main device a king's crown with stylized carbonation bubbles radiating...
The "SC" bottom mark reminds me of Scottish Central Glass Works, LTD., of Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, but I do not know when they were in operation.
The heraldry of Crushie with arms spread is referred to as "Crushie expectant." Were he full, the reflection would be
on the customer being happy. Were he empty, the reflection would be the customer being desirous of returning the item for exchange.