Need Cocoa Cola info

Uwharrie digger · Sep 21, 2013

While it was raining this afternoon I have been plundering through my Cocoa Cola bottles and found these 2 straight sided bottles. Would you call their color citron? If so does that make them rare or more valuable than the other straight sided bottles? I have found clear and Aqua bottles from Albemarle, NC but these are the only two I have found this color.

Uwharrie digger · Sep 21, 2013

Here is a close up you can see all the bubbles in them. One has like a wrinkle in the middle of it.

Uwharrie digger · Sep 21, 2013

Here is the base.

ScottBSA · Sep 21, 2013

Definitely not a regular color. How long have you had them? There seems to be some otherwise clear or aqua bottles that have been bombed by some space ray machine and turned not purple, but kind of a funky brown. The reason for asking how long you have had them is this seems to be a relatively new way of altering the color of the bottles. That being said, do you know who made the bottles? With a makers mark, others may be able to check their color against these as a check.

Scott

MichaelFla · Sep 21, 2013

They would turn that yellow/straw color if made with selenium and irradiated. I have no idea if that is what happened to those two. But it is a common practice, unfortunately

Uwharrie digger · Sep 21, 2013

Scott, my father and I dug them back about 1970. They came from a dump at a shanty town at one of the dams that was being built on the Yadkin River. The dam was started in 1912 and completed in 1917. We dug 25 - 30 straight sided Cocoa Colas at this site and we both found one of this color. My dad found a busted one also. I don't know where it went. The others were clear and a few were aqua. The most of the clear ones have a hint of purple now. These two were the only ones of this color I have ever seen that came from Albemarle, NC. These two have been in my Dad's bottle room since we dug them. I inherited them when my father died . They have not been altered in anyway. If anything they have gotten alittle darker.

Uwharrie digger · Sep 22, 2013

I checked the bottles for a makers mark the only thing I found was D.O.C. 6-5 on both bottles.. I reckon it is the maker. I checked a couple of the clear and Aqua bottles I found at the the same site that are the same style and they had the same Maker mark if that is what it is.

Andrewt · Sep 23, 2013

D.O Cunnigham Glass Company of Pittsburg, Pa. these are also the later machine made bottles.

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