If you look at the seller's other lots, some are ending with the appearance of being sold, but are then relisted. I suspect we'll see a relist on the Jellico Coca-Cola, too. The bottle is from about 1950, it has casewear, and has a cap that says "caffeine " on it - not that old.
I've stated this before - the 1 and 1. below the OI mark are two different, but fairly identical molds. At Streator, and maybe other plants, bottle orders were quite often blown in a pair of molds. This was a practice that started with the American Bottle Co. at Streator in the 1910's - at...
I looked for things that looked like G mold numbers with no O-I symbol among my bottles. All I found was examples of the same kind of thing --
I have a bottle with G9482 30E ("Famous"), and one (8.5oz) with G9625 30E and one (24oz) with G9626 30E (both "Royal Beverage Co."), and a G10143 30E...
There certainly could be Owens-Illinois bottles that lack the OI symbol. If it says G3003 1, that sounds to me like Owens-Illinois mold design G3003 and mold cavity number 1.
Root Glass Co. mold numbers look much different than Owens-Illinois numbers. The Root Glass Co. 4-digit numbers and...
"Also, 37 bottles have no third number; they have only the plant number and the 'date code' number. "
With regard to missing mold cavity numbers - sometimes the mold cavity number is located on the back or front heel of the bottle.
Both the American Bottle Co. at Streator, and the OI...
Bob,
In the later 1910’s and through the 1920’s, a typical order for embossed soda water bottles blown on an Owens machine at the American Bottle Co. plant in Streator, Illinois would be blown in a pair of molds.
(Toulouse writes in error about the bottles produced at Streator between...
Bob,
I guess I should be calling "design numbers" by their name in the OI catalog - "mold numbers". And the numbers usually located below the OI symbol I should be calling “mold cavity numbersâ€. I've been cataloging Wisconsin OI soda bottles for 40 years and always called mold numbers...
From a Wisconsin soda water bottle perspective: The Owens-Illinois Glass company plants 9, 7, and 3 located in Streator, Illinois; Alton, Illinois; and Fairmont, West Virginia used design numbers designated by the letter G followed by a 2, 3, 4, or 5 digit number. And the design numbers were...
Here is some genealogy from the internet:
Albert Heil
According to his death certificate, Albert was retired from a bottling company. He died at home, 702 North Second St. Dennison, Ohio. Death certificate informant was Mrs. Elizabeth Heil.
Roman Heil
The 1900 census states that 16 year...
I'm not sure "peened out" is the proper term. To peen means to flatten. But the lettering in a bottle mold is "cut into" the mold. Anything "cut into" a mold would have to be "filled in" in order to get rid of embossed lettering on a bottle blown in that mold. The tiny numbers used to...