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A Mysterious '5' -- who made it?
A 5-gallon water bottle, pics attached, made for the Crystal Springs Water Company, S. F. Cal. (San Francisco, I suppose) is marked with a simple '5' on the base. The spout suggests a date before 1930, so the '5' might indicate 1925 --- or might indicate the volume, 5 gallons (more likely, I...- 5 gallon collector
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Orange Crush
Orange Crush experts, Illinois Glass Co. experts, big-bottle experts, others in the know: what is known about the 5-gallon Orange Crush bottle that appeared this past week on ebay? It is has a cork closure spout, and is stamped on the base with the I-in-Diamond of the Illinois Glass Co...- 5 gallon collector
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Monday Morning Mystery Mark: The Walton Ice Co., Elyria, OH
Happy week before Xmas. Speak-writing of Xmas, here is a mystery bottle mark with 'mas 'x'es', 'mas equis'; little 'x'es all over the place, nine of them. It is a 5-gallon bottle made for the Walton Ice Company of Elyria Ohio, 1920's or earlier, possibly 1915 or 1925, with a base mark that I...- 5 gallon collector
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5-gallon bottle marked with a conjoined WP; 1954 --
Hello, Wise Ones, I am looking for information about the bottle maker who made a 5-gallon water bottle for the Feather River Spring Water Company of Sacramento, California, in 1954. The mark seems to be a joined capital W with a capital P. I was not able to find this mark on two of the on-line...- 5 gallon collector
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Make it Schnappy, Herr Russ
Hi, folks, It's not a 5-gallon beauty, so I'm out of my depth on this find -- picked up by my son this afternoon while he was rock-hounding in CA gold-rush country, en route home from a meteorite hunting trip to northern Nevada. He's not a bottle person, but stumbled (best not to stumble on...- 5 gallon collector
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SMACK, 1925, Los Angeles - ?info, ?connection to Fruit-Smack / Grape-Smack
SMACK experts wanted - but please, leave no welts, no bruises. Going through some 5-gallon bottles I acquired 30+ years ago I came across SMACK, made in the Los Angeles area in 1925 by M-in-a-shield-mark (?Marble/Monarch/Midway -- I think Midway?). A crown top, unusually early (though there is...- 5 gallon collector
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Hello, from LA - that's Los Angeles, not Louisiana
Once upon a time..... Not new to the site, but not active until recently -- more time now, partly retired. Interest is in the bottled water industry of Calif and especially So Calif, trying to sort out which manufacturers made which bottles for whom and when -- don't ask me why. (It's not a...- 5 gallon collector
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