i have three individual glass slides used to transfer images and artwork/logo to the original six ounce coca cola bottles.
the three bottling works are as follows-
Richmond Coca Cola Bottling Works, Urbanna, Virginia
Washington Coca Cola Bottling Works, Silver Spring, Maryland...
it turns out three of them are coca cola. another dozen or so are co-branded coca cola, with Crass' Orange, Cherry, Ginger Ale, Grape, etc...they are all bottled out of and stamped "Coca Cola Bottling Chambersburg, PA. Others include O-So Grape, Clicquot Club eskimo caps, and a bunch of others...
trying to find out more about what i have here...i have three individual 14x17 inch glass sheets that were used to apply the coca cola logo to the bottlecaps. the bottlecap art repeats over and over across the face of the plate glass.
i also have a dozen other such photo plates that were...
these are all from between anywhere from the 1880s and 1930s-1940s.
included in my collection are some Coca Cola bottlecap slides,
Crass' orange, grape, birch beer, root beer, cherry, old pale dry ginger ale (all co-labeled Coca Cola Bottleworks Chambersburg, PA)
O-So Grape
Old Venice 3...
from wikipedia-
The Clicquot Club Company, also known as Clicquot Club Beverages, pronounced "Klee-Ko" and sometimes spelled "Cliquot", was a national beverage company that sold several varieties of soda. After 80 years of operation, the company was bought and shut down by Canada Dry in 1965...
here is the other sample pic i have. there are at least three or four, probably more varieties and brands.
my grandfather may have picked this up in the caribbean while he was stationed there in the 40s...Clicquot Club brand ginger ale had some bottling plants in the bahamas, and cuba...
im going nuts trying to ID these. found an entire wooden box full of them, about two feet by three feet. maybe a little smaller. glass photo transfer plates used to put the logo on the bottlecaps.
my questions- what exactly is the proper term for what i have on my hands here?
has anyone ever...
i have these glass transfer plates used to apply the graphics to the bottlecaps. look to be from the early 1910s to 1930s. May have come from the Bahamas or Cuba, as my grandfather was stationed there in the 30s-40s. Clicquot Club ginger ale transfer plates are in the collection, and they had...
eric- i see youre from Mass. the Clicquot Club soda line was based and bottled out of Millis, MA. the factory took up so much of the town that they expanded the railroad system to link directly to their docks. it was sold eventually to Cott soda, and the factory closed. 1/3 of it now exists as a...
various flavors and designs, cream soda, ginger ale, orange soda, cola...to my knowledge, most or all are of the Clicquot Club ginger ale variety, (1881-1950s), a now out of business beverage company closed since the mid 1900s. others in the collection are by Jet Cola, or Chief Bottling...
i think it would be amazing to make a lampshade out of one of them...ill keep a few of each for myself, but i literally have about NINETY more for sale. anyone interested, please let me know :)
and thanks for all the help, everyone :)
that is EXACTLY what i have...all different flavors, of Clicquot Club. made in massachusetts from the 1880s til the mid 1900s. the plates of glass are probably 12x18 or 18x24 inches. i have so many that itll probably take me an hour or two simply to inventory them, but i'd like to put them up...