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    Special Coke Bottle.

    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.
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    DATING OWENS-ILLINOIS BOTTLES

    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...
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    H.A. Funderburk bottle.

    That's all I have. I think you are down to local histories, newspapers, telephone directories, business directories, etc.
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    H.A. Funderburk bottle.

    The 1930's address is White & Gay Street in Lancaster.
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    H.A. Funderburk bottle.

    H. A. Funderburk was proprietor of the Lime Cola Bottling Co. in Lancaster from 1932 until 1940.
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    Frostie RB found today!!

    My Frostie bottles like that date from 1953 to 1957. By 1959 Frostie went to a red on cream label.
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    OWENS-ILLINOIS MARK 4285G ~ WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR?

    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...
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    OWENS-ILLINOIS MARK 4285G ~ WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR?

    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...
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    OWENS-ILLINOIS MARK 4285G ~ WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR?

    "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...
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    OWENS-ILLINOIS MARK 4285G ~ WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR?

    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...
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    OWENS-ILLINOIS MARK 4285G ~ WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR?

    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...
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    OWENS-ILLINOIS MARK 4285G ~ WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR?

    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...
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    My new SS Coke Bottle purchase!

    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...
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    My new SS Coke Bottle purchase!

    Heil Brothers were the proprietors per the 1925 Beverage Blue Book.
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    Peened out embossing

    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...
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    EARLIEST OWENS-ILLINOIS SODA BOTTLE MARK (NON-ACL)

    I have 2 Wisconsin sodas with the Owens-Illinois mark, and dated 1929. They are ROBBIN'S BEVERAGES bottles from Richland Center, Wisconsin. There is a mold 1 and a mold 2. Mold 1 has the O-I mark, the mold number 1, the bottle design number 3247 and the date 29 - all on the bottom of the...

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