carnival glass coca cola bottle

[Eggdrop]

This coca cola bottle appears to be a Pat-D that type dates between 1938-1951, i have been told this is a 1950 and was made by Owens Glass-works in Worcester Massachusettes. The perplexing part is that this appears to be made out of carnival glass. The coloration is inside, outside, and throughout the bottle. My thoughts are that it was part of a promotion, or a limited release, but I can not find any information about it. any additional information would be greatly appreciated.

 

[embe]

neat, haven't seen one before. Under the right soil conditions I've heard of certain chemicals leaching out of glass, causing iridescence. This looks a bit more deliberate.

 

[hemihampton]

Looks like a outdoor dump found Bottle. I've seen a few bottles from dumps appear like this from the minerals & chemicals in ground. LEON.

 

[CanadianBottles]

It does look like the sort of iridescence that dug bottles sometimes get, but I don't remember ever seeing such a recent bottle with that type of iridescence. I don't think I've seen it on anything from after the 1910s or so. I wonder if maybe someone caused it through some sort of chemical process, there's likely some way to speed up the process that takes place underground. Like Leon says, it does look like a dug bottle, so might have been done by someone as a hobby project or experiment.

 

[buriedtreasuretime]

Looks like a outdoor dump found Bottle. I've seen a few bottles from dumps appear like this from the minerals & chemicals in ground. LEON.

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Omg, aren’t those really something. The opalescence on the Barrel shaped bottle is outstanding! To me, because I collect for aesthetics and in certain veins of bottle makes( bitters, whiskey, flasks, demijohns, gin, embalming fluid, quilted cobalt poisons ) a bottle that has a high degree of opalescence takes the cake every time. No way you can fake that mineralization. A plane blob with a heavily opalized surface, I’m love.


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[buriedtreasuretime]

This coca cola bottle appears to be a Pat-D that type dates between 1938-1951, i have been told this is a 1950 and was made by Owens Glass-works in Worcester Massachusettes. The perplexing part is that this appears to be made out of carnival glass. The coloration is inside, outside, and throughout the bottle. My thoughts are that it was part of a promotion, or a limited release, but I can not find any information about it. any additional information would be greatly appreciated.

This Coca Cola does have very “carnival glass” qualities, opalescence usually causes some cloudiness. Your bottle is fairly transparent. It’s a beauty and does seem to be fully colored as in treated like carnival glass. Did you dig this from a pit or dump? It may be opalization or as you said it may be a promotion. I’m wondering if any of the soda bottle collectors have seen this on a Coca-Cola from that time period?


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[Eggdrop]

This Coca Cola does have very “carnival glass” qualities, opalescence usually causes some cloudiness. Your bottle is fairly transparent. It’s a beauty and does seem to be fully colored as in treated like carnival glass. Did you dig this from a pit or dump? It may be opalization or as you said it may be a promotion. I’m wondering if any of the soda bottle collectors have seen this on a Coca-Cola from that time period?


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I want to say about 20+ years ago I purchased it from a flea market vendor in Connecticut, who got me into bottle collecting as a child. It does appear to have some wear along the lettering, and the base of the bottle, but I could not tell you where he got it from. all he said is "its a beaut, make sure to take care of it!". Back then he was in his mid 70's and shabbily out of shape...doubt hes still around or id try to track him down. I really don't think its from ground chemicals as the patterns indeed seem more deliberate. its something iv put aside for a very long time, only looking up once in a while until i posted it on ebay and got a $2200 offer...i took it off ebay shortly after that and tried to research it more, through places like this, in order to figure out the exact story of this little guy.

 

[Kaleb Pusateri]

It is indeed 1950 and Owens Illinois, My guess for this bottle is a few bucks, but I'm not an expert.