7up Paper label on green Nu Icy bottle

[budd1959]

Hello,

I thought I had a 7up bottle with a paper label but the bottle is a green Nu Icy bottle.
The bottle is embossed on the other side of the paper label on the neck with a 5 pointed star and the words Nu Icy flavors you cant forget.
On the bottom of the bottle it has MIN. CONT. 6 FLU.OZ. 283E ROOT 30

Paper Label at bottom says: 7-UP BOTTLING CO. OF AUSTIN Phone 5902 Austin, Texas Content 7 FL. Oz

Any ideas as to age or value?

Thank you. Buddy

 

[budd1959]

I forgot to mention that on the bottom of the bottle it has San Antonio embossed.

Thanks for any help.
Buddy

 

[budd1959]

I found this information at:
http://cecilmunsey.com/index.php?op...rom+a+non-authorized+domain.+(www.google.com)

Early Seven-Up Bottles As was typical for the times,
7-Up bottlers were asked to supply their own bottles.
In that request, and the resulting
variety of bottles. By the late 1930s, the odd
supply of 7-Up bottles had settled down
to the standard “ho-hum†green sevenounce
version.

Could this be an early pre 1930's?
anybody have an Idea how old the green Ni Icy bottle is?

any help would be appreciated.

Buddy

 

[athometoo]

hope this helps i have a better site but cant find the link .

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SOFT-DRINK INDUSTRY. The Texas soft-drink industry dates from 1839, when Dr. Thomas Mitchell, an English physician living in Houston, operated an apothecary with a soda fountain from March until his death on October 1. Carbonated water had bubbled from springs in Europe since Roman times. During the eighteenth century, scientists experimented with "fixed air" and produced "aerated waters." Some of them used bicarbonate of soda in their experiments, and the term "soda water" became ensconced in the English language. By 1810 New York City had "soda fountains," where proprietors dispensed artificial "mineral waters" for therapeutic purposes. Flavored soda water, which developed with the rise of the ice industry, was available in apothecary shops, but bottled soda water was an expensive product. Sailing ships took ice from northeastern states to New Orleans in 1820 and later to Houston, and in 1838 a Houston newspaper noted that ice sold for 50 cents per pound. In 1850 Texas had none of the sixty-four bottling plants in the nation. The first notice of a soda-water manufacturer in Texas was issued in 1866, when the Houston City Directory listed J. J. C. Smith's establishment as a "mineral water manufactory." In the 1870 census, Galveston and Brownsville reported "manufacturers of mineral and soda water." Victoria and Austin had two ice-making machines. Texas had one of the four ice plants in the nation. In 1880 Texas had eleven bottling plants: four in San Antonio, two each in Galveston and Austin, and one each in Houston, Dallas, and Mexia. In 1890 Texas had forty-two soda-water plants, plus five unspecified bottlers and seven breweries (see BREWING INDUSTRY).
The 1890s saw major changes in the state's soft-drink industry. New plants appeared with the introduction of the Hutchinson bottle stopper, patented in 1879 and manufactured in Chicago. (In a Hutchinson stopper, a wire loop protruded from the bottle neck and was fastened to a rubber seal; when seated the seal blocked the escape of gas from the water in the drink.) Most plants served one or two counties, and occasionally they shipped by rail to neighboring communities. The bottler's largest investment was in bottles and cases. No deposit was charged and bottle stealing among bottlers was common, even when glass blowers embossed the name of the town on the bottles. In 1891 the Elliott Bottling Works of Paris called a convention to address the problem. Twenty-nine bottlers and suppliers, principally from East Texas, met in October in Dallas and formed the Texas State Bottlers Protective Association. They drafted a constitution and by-laws aimed at preventing "the unlawful use of registered bottles, boxes, siphons, etc." But policing was impossible.
By the 1890s two beverages had changed the character of the soft-drink industry. In 1885 Charles Alderton, a Waco pharmacist, originated Dr Pepper Phos-Ferrates (see DR PEPPER COMPANY), and in 1886 John Pemberton concocted Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1885 Wade B. Morrison, who owned the Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, arranged with Robert Sherman Lazenby, owner of a small bottling plant, to mix and ship Dr Pepper Phos-Ferrates syrup to area drugstores. In 1891 a feed-store operator in Dublin, Texas, began bottling soda waters, including Dr Pepper. Other plants in Central Texas followed suit. However, during the 1890s no Texas bottling plant advertised a franchised soft drink and no company listed such a product in its company or corporate name. In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Lazenby had an exclusive War Department contract to bottle and ship his Circle A Ginger Ale to servicemen in foreign lands. He supplied both army and navy installations until World War I. In 1900 Texas had 139 soda-water bottling plants. Lemon, ginger, ale, vanilla, orange, sarsaparilla, and raspberry were the principal flavors. The state also had seventy-seven ice plants, more than any other. Only one bottling plant used power-a four-horsepower central motor which delivered power by belts to carbonators and bottle-washing machines.
In 1899 two lawyers from Tennessee, B. F. Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, secured "bottling rights" from the Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia. They issued contracts to produce and sell Coca-Cola within control areas. Although Texas and parts of New England were excluded, the system provided the capital and the entrepreneurship needed to develop the soft-drink industry nationally. Thomas and Whitehead offered contracts in specific geographic regions, Thomas taking the northern and eastern states and Pacific coast and Whitehead taking the South and Southwest. Thomas built a bottling plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Whitehead built one in Atlanta. Whitehead sold a half interest to J. T. Lupton, a lawyer from a Virginia tobacco family. Lupton helped finance the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Atlanta, and in 1902 his relatives opened plants in Dallas and Houston. Within three years Coca-Cola was selling its syrup to twenty-nine Texas plants. Soft drinks were among the first consumer products controlled by the franchise system. In 1914 twenty Texas bottlers listed Coca-Cola as part of their trade name, and eight did not. Other Texas companies did not issue franchises until the 1920s. Delaware Punch, a noncarbonated drink formulated in 1913 in San Antonio, was among the first to join Coca-Cola in issuing franchises in Texas. Between 1899 and 1914 the number of Texas plants doubled and the value of production tripled. In 1914 Texas had 262 plants (4.8 percent of the nation's total), but only the Coca-Cola bottlers included the franchise in their trade name.
Between 1914 and 1924 a number of flavor manufacturers or distributors began offering franchises patterned after the Coca-Cola model. In 1922 Texas had 179 bottling works, but only 33 included a copyrighted soft drink in their trade name-30 with Coca-Cola and 3 with Whistle. By 1923 Texas had 205 plants (of 4,514 nationally). In 1924 nine bottlers were producing "cola" drinks besides Coca-Cola, including Chero-Cola, Tex-A-Cola, Lime Cola, Keen Kola, and Cola Hiball. Cola-Cola filed a lawsuit against all "imitators," won a raft of court decisions, and stopped the traffic for a decade. The Chero-Cola Company of Columbus, Georgia, changed its corporate name to Nehi Company and promoted fruit flavors. Other franchises in Texas included Whistle (six plants), Orange Crush (three), NuGrape (one), Grapico (two), and Cherry Blossoms (one). Bottling plants also manufactured other merchandise: ice (five plants), ice cream (ten), candy (eleven), creamery products (three), and beer (one). Out of 276 bottling firms, 114 produced no franchised soft drinks. In 1924 Texas bottlers marketed eleven trademarked products. By 1929 the state had thirty-four Nehi plants, ten Dr Pepper plants with name identification by trademark, three Orange Squeeze plants, and six other plants incorporating a beverage name. Coca-Cola gave bottlers "exclusive rights" to use its trademark in 6½-ounce returnable bottles in a specific territory. In 1929 Texas had 325 bottling plants, 16.3 percent of the national total. The number declined to 260 in 1931 and 210 in 1933.
During the Great Depression, Seven-Up and Pepsi-Cola sought markets in Texas, mainly under the promotion of Jodie W. McCarley of San Antonio. While shagging baseballs for the Cleveland Indians in St. Louis, McCarley met Pearl Whitcraft and Ed Taylor, who owned soda-water plants in the city. In 1929 Taylor offered McCarley a chance to get in the bottling business by assuming a debt owed a St. Louis flavor manufacturer. McCarley set up a small bottling plant in his home in San Antonio with second-hand machinery, and peddled his drinks each morning. In addition to generic flavors, he sold Knight Club Ginger Ale, mostly to bootleggers. Ed Taylor also put McCarley in touch with C. L. Griggs, owner of the Howdy Company, which offered franchises on Howdy Orange. In 1928 Griggs had copyrighted Seven-Up, a lithiated lemon drink promoted as a mixer. In January 1930 McCarley, the second bottler in the nation to receive a Seven-Up franchise (Taylor was the first), was given an opportunity to sell Seven-Up in seventy-eight Texas counties. Business was slow: he signed up only one bottler, Ed Knebel, who had moved his small plant from Pflugerville to Austin in 1930. In 1932 McCarley obtained a franchise to sell Hires Root Beer. Then Whitcraft notified McCarley that Pepsi-Cola was interested in Texas, and on April 1, 1934, McCarley and a partner secured a Pepsi-Cola franchise for sixty-four counties. McCarley was the first Texan to bottle Pepsi-Cola. In his first year he sold 13,300 cases of Pepsi in twelve-ounce beer bottles of brown, green, and "flint" (colorless). As his business expanded, he began operating five route trucks, and in 1937 he moved to a larger plant in San Antonio. By the 1930s, Pepsi and Nehi's Royal Crown Cola had established markets in Texas. Nehi had a statewide system known as Chero-Cola bottlers. Depression prices enabled bottlers to offer twelve-ounce drinks for five cents retail, and twelve-ounce bottles became popular. Between 1934 and 1939 Pepsi signed up bottlers in eighteen Texas towns, though many of these did not survive.[/align]

 

[athometoo]

for those that want to read the rest of it . cool timeline on coca cola . sam
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/disyk.html

 

[budd1959]

Thank you athometoo for all the information.
I am from the Austin area and had no idea of the history.

Thanks, Again, Buddy

 

[madman]

nice bottle!

 

[jays emporium]

Buddy,
I'll be set up at the Austin Citywide Garage Sale at Palmer Events Center April 24-25, if you want to stop by and talk about bottles.
Jay

 

[budd1959]

Jay,

That sounds great, I will be looking for you there.
Going tomorrow to a big garage sale in Johnson City for the volunteer
fire department. Starts tomorrow and goes until the 10th.


Buddy