Hobbleskirt Coke with 1916 date error

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"Most if not all of the 1917 bottles were produced by the Root Glass Company and should have ROOT 17 embossed on the heel."....???? Apparently not....This was in the article."The Coca-Cola Co. sent a blueprint drawn by C.W. Mourey to various glasshouses, including the Chattanooga
Bottle & Glass Co. (as described in Napier’s directives). Dated August 16,1916, this almost certainly marks the
earliest transmission of bottle details to any companies other than Root. It also demonstrates that glass houses
– aside from Root – had the capability to make the bottles by that time." I see several of the clear bottles around ...no city no date...they are from the 1917-1919 period but garner little attention because the lack of mentioned. Interesting to note that they did not advertise the bottle until 1918.
 

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Thanks for all the responses. Here is a link to another web site forum about an identical bottle. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/bottles-glass/338368-cool-coke-bottle.html I may be beating a dead horse but this is what I can conclude.1. They were all made by the same glass house who marked the base "4".2. They are all a distinctive aqua color. (I have noticed the color matches some of the southern bottles I have the period, such as from Alabama, South Carolina, or Georgia, these bottles are more sky blue/ice blue than the aqua's I collect from New York from the same period. Different composition of raw materials probably.3. They are shorter and slightly wider at the hip than the usual 1915 bottle.4. Glass seems crude.5. Probably small glass house. Cheaply made. I don't know why they put 1916. Anyone think these might have been pirated bottles used to sell imitation Coke? Kind of like the knockoff purses you can buy in any city? They might have copies the design from an advertising sign, as people have posted here, rather than from any specs from Coca Cola. Just a thought.
 

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Well I'd assume the 1916 on the bottle was an error...if so why did they run the print adds with the patent 1916 on the bottle. No error bottle exist for Canada...that I'm aware of, but the advertisement I just posted on my thread has the 1916 patent year on the bottle[:-] http://www.antique-bottle...he-D19-m662650-p3.aspx
 

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cobaltbot said:
That's a 1915, don't see the connection.

The connection is in response to my saying earlier I had never seen a "clear" Patent 1915 bottle in which a 1917 Washington Post newspaper article referred to as "corrugated" and "white."
 

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I'm beginning to suspect it was the Coca Cola parent company in Atlanta, Georgia that created the error dates and not the bottle makers. The reason I say this is because I have seen identical ads which appeared in numerous newspapers across the country between 1917 and 1921 that all depict the same image of a hobbleskirt with the 1916 date. Member Morbious_fod posted one earlier by the Dixie Bottling Works of Bristol, Virginia. I have also found the "identical" ad from ... Statesville, North Carolina ~ August 1917San Antonio, Texas ~ May 1919And the one pictured below from East Liverpool, Ohio ~ September 1919 Because the ads are identical, I suspect they originated from the advertising department in Atlanta and were distributed nationwide to various bottlers. What I find weirdest of all is that the same ad was published for several years without anyone ever correcting it. Its sort of like which came first, the chicken or the egg? Except in this case, the question is ... Which came first, the error ads or the error bottles? Or did they occur simultaneously?
 

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For a side-by-side comparison, here are two artist renderings of the same bottle from ... 1. Statesville, Ohio Ad ~ 19172. Monroe, Louisiana Ad ~ 1921 After clicking on and opening one of the images, place your cursor arrow on the image and gently roll your mouse wheel to change the images back-and-forth. Notice certain details like the little ss on the crown cap and various other details such as the placement of the bubbles. As near as I can determine, they appear to be identical drawings, and yet one is from 1917 and the other is from 1921, which is a five year span of using the same image that has a major error in it.
 

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