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You'd be surprised at how far back they used 5 cent deposits. The farther back you go the more five cents was worth, but the more bottles were worth as well. In BC there's a company which marked the deposits on a lot of their bottles. These are crude applied lip internal thread and Codd bottles, and they're marked with three or five cent deposits - and one bottle from a branch location in a more remote city is marked with a whopping twelve cent deposit, more than the deposits are today!
In the case of the milk bottle being discussed, it's almost certainly from 1945.
That’s really interesting about the deposits. I didn’t think about making the bottles, further back before automated bottle machines, how much more work would have gone into making them- and naturally they were more valuable, earlier. Now u have me curious about what the deposits were here in Redding… because when I was a kid, I remember we were city people when they changed the population signs to read 9000 people! I keep running into old local bottles, and was surprised that they even had a glass house here. My dad was also raised here. We were literally in the boondocks- like a 3 cow town. I think we are over 100000, now? Anyway, thanks for schooling me! (But as much as old bottles were worth, back then, apparently dirt was worth more- they filled the privies with glass when it could have been dirt. lucky for us! I guess that was killing 2 birds with 1 stone by getting rid of the trash, as well.)
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