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logueb

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Thanks Leon. I will check out some of the 23 Pat bottles to see if any have the LGW and date.
 

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Along the same lines, someone told me that the 1915s weren't used until 1919. :confused:


Just for the record ...

This is the earliest advertisement I am aware of for the new Coca Cola contour/hobbleskirt bottle from ...

[ The Statesville Sentinel ~ Statesville, North Carolina ~ August 20, 1917 ]

Coca Cola Earliest Hobbleskirt Ad The_Statesville_Sentine_lN.C._Mon__Aug_20__1917_ (3).jpg

Coca Cola Earliest Hobbleskirt Ad The_Statesville_Sentine_lN.C._Mon__Aug_20__1917_ (4).jpg


And here's a Root Glass Company Patent 1915 Coca Cola contour/hobbleskirt bottle I own that's marked on the heel with ROOT 17

COCA COLA ROOT 17 FRONT (2).jpg

COCA COLA ROOT 17 ROOT (2).jpg

COCA COLA ROOT 17 (2).jpg

Footnote:

ROOT started dating their bottles in 1909 and almost without exception every ROOT bottle from 1909 on has a double-digit date on it
 

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Interestingly ...

This ad is by the same bottler from the same newspaper as the last one I posted. But its dated two weeks earlier and depicts a straight-sided paper label bottle - suggesting that the new contour bottle was introduced by the Statesville Coca Cola Bottling Company sometime within that two week time period

[ The Statesville Sentinel ~ Statesville, North Carolina ~ August 6, 1917 ]

Coca Cola The_Statesville_Sentinel_N.C.__Mon__Aug_6__1917_ (3).jpg
 

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Thanks for the information on the dates.
 

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