Canada's rarest Coca-Cola hobble skirt... The D19

[Canadacan]

So on the side does the panel go right through?...if you know what I mean, or the vertical rib goes right through on the side making a smooth outer edge.

Here is the answer to your question: Yes! And here are the pictures that shows it

Great! thanks for the picture...amazing how long Canada used that style with the rib going right through..up till 1937. USA had a new style bottle (with the indent on the rib) the (DEC. 25, 1923 bottle) which I have, it's dated 1936.

 

[Canadacan]

Here is one I found last week with a date code of 1921.This has been buried for quite some time I imagine. The rains brought it out in the open from a gully I have been hitting after each rain we have. 20s era bottles have been surfacing lately.AKRON OH is on the bottomPretty close to Canada (HAHA)

Hey that's getting pretty early for date codes from what I understand....that is also probably an updated mold judging by the script. Cool find!

 

[Canadacan]

This came in the mail on Friday!...stand by for pictures and comparisons of what may be even Rarer than The D19!!! [attachment=new bottle.jpg]

 

[RCO]

midland antiques mall ? I've been there before , he had a blue coca cola bottle from that time period ? did you buy that one or did he have something else ?

 

[Canadacan]

midland antiques mall ? I've been there before , he had a blue coca cola bottle from that time period ? did you buy that one or did he have something else ?

Hang on I'm going to post in a few...Yes I jumped on this bottle...not sure how long he had it posted for sale. Here is where the learning curve kicks in because many people don't know that this bottle is Canadian and pre dates the D19, I never asked him a thing...I just bought it cause I knew what it was.

 

[Canadacan]

And here it is...The Canadian 1915 patent bottle in cool ice blue! This bottle is marked mold #1 and is predecessor to the D19. In fact I believe it is of the same mold as my D19 #1.... so kind of like brothers!..lolI will show a very distinct feature regarding the loop that is missing on both in the next post. [attachment=Canada 1915 patent Coke 001.JPG] It looks green in this photo as I made the mistake of taking the pic beside a green ACL!...oops!![attachment=1915 patent Canada (2).jpg] The 1915 patent & the D19 with date peened out, both Mold #1[attachment=Canada_1915_patent_Coke_003.jpg]

 

[Canadacan]

In these two pictures you will note the missing loop that connects the 'O' to the small 'C' [attachment=Canada 1915 patent Coke 006.JPG] [attachment=Canada 1915 patent Coke 007.JPG] Here we can see the mold #1 on both bottles. Note that the size of the numeral was reduced on the D19 and placement was moved one rib to the left and down.[attachment=1915 patent Canada.jpg]

 

[RCO]

I'm sure I've seen that bottle before , it looked darker in his display cabinet but must be the same coca cola bottle . he actually tried to trade it to me for a rare local 1920's art deco bottle I had come across but I didn't go for it .it is a neat bottle and definity one of the earlier coca cola bottles used in Canada

 

[Canadacan]

Well I'm glad you didn't!..lol. This bottle was the first hobble skirt used 1917-1919 ...I have a Canadian newspaper add dated 1918 burried some where with this bottle on it . Still pretty intersting to wonder exactly why they had to remove the patent date?.... was it simply patent law that did not apply to Canada? There is another known one with a mold #2 on it.Also very intersting is the fact that the latest of the SS bottles have the same style skinny script.

 

[Canadacan]

I recently came across the most fantastic picture! It comes from the City of Vancouver archives. They say a picture is worth a 1000 words?...well this one is worth 1001!!! It's dated 1919-1920... no doubt about as that the licence plates have the 1919 year on them! The earliest listing I could find in the directories archives is for Coca-Cola Co. is 1919....the address listed is 866 Richards St. but that must have been a typo because the next year (1920) it's shown as 898 Richards St. [attachment=Coca-Cola Vancouve...ards st 1919-1.jpg]