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I have not posted in a while and wanted to share a new bottle...It's a brown 30oz Webb's with a root beer crown. But I thought I'd post as much as I can on Webb's Stubby while I'm at it. I had tried to do some research before but access to eastern Canada, particularly Ontario newsprint archives is limited. I feel I have enough examples to give a great idea of the bottle time line, but I am missing several examples from my collection.
To my knowledge this is the earliest bottle with only 'Webb's' embossed above 'English Stone Ginger Beer' ..design registered 1931, this example is from Dominion glass bout does not have a date code. At this time I do not know when the company was incorporated of if other earlier bottle examples exist ie: stoneware or straight side with paper label.
Next up are the stubby bottles...I suppose that's why it became Webb's Stubby? This bottle design was registered in 1939 and came in 10oz and 12oz....the 12oz I could not glean a date code from but the 10oz appears to be from 1941....I can't see it being 1951 with this label because that changed in around the mid 40's.
Winnipeg was introduced to Stubby in 1941 with a new beverage plant by Foster Beverage Limited.
The Winnipeg Tribune, 6 Jun 1941, Fri
Now for the 30oz!...this bottle shares the same label design as the stubby bottles, but the back is printed much differently. this example is dated 1947.
This is the link to the Tim Maitland collection, it features the three generations of 30oz Stubby bottles, of interest you will note my bottle has white lettering on the neck and the other bottle has red. http://www.ecbw.ca/tim_maitland_collection/images/stubby_02.jpg
Stubby- The Ottawa Journal, 28 Nov 1947, Fri
I'm not sure when they started using the small green 6.5 oz bottles, but the best I can tell is this one is from 1944, is shares the same label design as the pervious 30oz bottle.
To my knowledge this is the earliest bottle with only 'Webb's' embossed above 'English Stone Ginger Beer' ..design registered 1931, this example is from Dominion glass bout does not have a date code. At this time I do not know when the company was incorporated of if other earlier bottle examples exist ie: stoneware or straight side with paper label.
Next up are the stubby bottles...I suppose that's why it became Webb's Stubby? This bottle design was registered in 1939 and came in 10oz and 12oz....the 12oz I could not glean a date code from but the 10oz appears to be from 1941....I can't see it being 1951 with this label because that changed in around the mid 40's.
Winnipeg was introduced to Stubby in 1941 with a new beverage plant by Foster Beverage Limited.
The Winnipeg Tribune, 6 Jun 1941, Fri
Now for the 30oz!...this bottle shares the same label design as the stubby bottles, but the back is printed much differently. this example is dated 1947.
This is the link to the Tim Maitland collection, it features the three generations of 30oz Stubby bottles, of interest you will note my bottle has white lettering on the neck and the other bottle has red. http://www.ecbw.ca/tim_maitland_collection/images/stubby_02.jpg
Stubby- The Ottawa Journal, 28 Nov 1947, Fri
I'm not sure when they started using the small green 6.5 oz bottles, but the best I can tell is this one is from 1944, is shares the same label design as the pervious 30oz bottle.
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