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

[Canadacan]

As for value I seemed to think generally the D19's in top condition with little case wear or chips are worth around $200 Cad. This example sold in May 2016 for $145 USD ($185cad) quite a bit of case wear on it....it is mold #9....and definitely a nice green tone on it.
It is thought that the D19 was around for just a short time period...1-2 years, but my theory is they were out a bit longer, probably till about 1924...that was the year that the Coca-Cola Co. became Coca-Cola Company of Canada Limited, and that was then placed on the bottles around that time.



I cant seem to find many post 1924 bottles but did find one that sold in April 2016 for $85 USD ($110cad) by Consumers glass. I have this bottle posted a few comments back but mine is pre 1924 as it has the blank space, the Consumers glass examples are quite different from the Dominion glass examples.
So this bottle would fall into the 1924-1931 period.....I have not seen any by Dominion glass.....that I can remember.

 

[Canadacan]

You gota love it when you get an upgrade!......I found this gem pictured on the left a while back when I was rooting through boxes out at Granny and Grumpa's Antiques....I was surprised that I missed it from previous trips.

D19 mold #6.....no patent year...pre 1924.

 

[tsims]

I picked up a Green Coke bottle hobbleskirt today but it has "TradeMark" only under the Coca Cola script, nothing at all on bottom of bottle and says 40 (diamond shape) then 52 about 2 inches up from bottom. Any thoughts out there would be appreciated. Usually the bottles say trademark registered and have a year on bottom of bottle.

 

[CanadianBottles]

I picked up a Green Coke bottle hobbleskirt today but it has "TradeMark" only under the Coca Cola script, nothing at all on bottom of bottle and says 40 (diamond shape) then 52 about 2 inches up from bottom. Any thoughts out there would be appreciated. Usually the bottles say trademark registered and have a year on bottom of bottle.

Could you post a picture? Hard to guess what its origin might be without knowing what it looks like.

 

[Canadacan]

I picked up a Green Coke bottle hobbleskirt today but it has "TradeMark" only under the Coca Cola script, nothing at all on bottom of bottle and says 40 (diamond shape) then 52 about 2 inches up from bottom. Any thoughts out there would be appreciated. Usually the bottles say trademark registered and have a year on bottom of bottle.

Sounds like you are describing an American Coke form 1952....it's probably not a Diamond, and is most certainly not a Canadian diamond D coke.
But yes a photograph would tell the tale.
I went and checked my bottles and I have the same bottle from one year before, 1951...I believe it's from Owens-Illinois Glass Co. and that logo does
have a diamond in it, but also the letter I through the middle....this logo is some what distorted, and from the logo table I can't see what else it would be.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Sounds like you are describing an American Coke form 1952....it's probably not a Diamond, and is most certainly not a Canadian diamond D coke.
But yes a photograph would tell the tale.
I went and checked my bottles and I have the same bottle from one year before, 1951...I believe it's from Owens-Illinois Glass Co. and that logo does
have a diamond in it, but also the letter I through the middle....this logo is some what distorted, and from the logo table I can't see what else it would be.
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Does yours have a city on the bottom? I don't remember seeing one like that before, although I don't come across that many US Cokes.

 

[Canadacan]

Does yours have a city on the bottom? I don't remember seeing one like that before, although I don't come across that many US Cokes.

No City.

 

[CanadianBottles]

No City.

I wonder if these were meant for overseas use, maybe in one of the US territories in the Pacific? Or for a non-US country which ordered its bottles from a US supplier?

 

[Canadacan]

I wonder if these were meant for overseas use, maybe in one of the US territories in the Pacific? Or for a non-US country which ordered its bottles from a US supplier?

Apparently made for Armed forces service personal. Mine came from the Glass Castle on Vancouver Island....they had many US bottles used to build it.