carling
Well-Known Member
I picked up this Harshaw Chemical Company acl soda bottle. Harshaw was located in Cleveland, Ohio with quite a bit of history attached to it, like the hand they had in WW2 and the atomic bomb. Here's a link to a web site some old former employees put out. Lots of company history.http://www.theharshawgang.org/ Notice the company insignia is the same as what is on the bottle. From reading their web site info, looks like they never had anything to do with soda or bottling. I’m guessing they may have been a manufacturer of the acl paint used on soda bottles from what I can gather reading about their history. I tried to contact their old employees, but their email address on the web site is no longer any good. So, what do you all think? Is if this is some kind of employee or salesman give-a-way bottle, or is this some kind of test bottle for the company’s paint application to glass? Or something else? Notice the codes etched into the acl, across the top of the acl: "F901, #16, D-786, 620, FAST". The bottle is a 1963 Duraglas bottle, as marked on the bottom. Thanks for any help! Rick
