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I went down to an area today that is a drainage ditch that drains into the river. I usually visit it after rains and discover a bottle or 2. I seemed to be at a level of 1920 era bottles from ones I have been finding recently. Anyway, I went down to find that they trenched it out by a dozer and had a pile of large plastic drain pipes they will be soon laying. I noticed sitting in the pile of trenched dirt, 2 bottles they I haven't dug down here before.
The first one is an embossed syrup bottle with the following:
California Fig Syrup Co.
Califig
Sterling Products (Inc)
Successor
It is in pretty good shape except for a chip on the lip. "O" in a square so made by the owens company between 1919-1929
Probably a common but it is one that was bottled furthest from my home AND embossed so it is a keeper.
The next one is a Coca Cola. I have found at this ditch area numerous hobble skirts from late teens to late 20s but this one is not a hobble skirt. It is embossed but I can't find a year or a bottling plant. As seen in the pictures one side has the word coke over what appears to be a hobbleskirt, the other side has coca cola over a hobbleskirt bottle. No deposit no return on the bottom rim. Contents 10 fl oz on top.
On the bottom "not to be refilled" 16 (an anchor) 2 67.
The anchor I assume is anchor hocking
The lip is not your typical crown top.
Ant ideas? I am just not finding this style on the net.
Thanks
 

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The Coke is a 1967 No Deposit No Return bottle and the 67 indicates it would be 1967. These bottles were used in the 60's and 70's, They were short lived between the returnable bottle and plastic bottles. There is some interest in these bottles in some areas. I've seen them priced in the $5. range. I have found quite a few of the Califig bottles. There must have been some mixing of the layers when the ditch was dug out. Buster
 

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We're these ACLs? What did they look like? Are there double diamond and single diamond?
 

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There were two versions that I have collected of the No Deposit No Return Coke bottles. If I remember correctly, the one you have had a paper label over the embossing. No ACL on these bottles. The other No Deposit No Return (NDNR) Coke was shaped like the hobble skirt. There are some of both versions of these on Ebay. Not sure about the single diamond and double diamond thing. You can see what your bottle looked like when it had the paper label on Google images. Buster
 

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