COCA COLA / 1915 PROTOTYPE / EARL R DEAN / RAY A GRAHAM

[SODAPOPBOB]

RE: Pepsi Pinch Bottle

I had this picture in my photo gallery but not sure when or where I got it. I titled it ...

Coca Cola Bottle D.O.C. 1183

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

RE: Pepsi Pinch Bottle

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water again, here I show up with another "shark sighting." I'm still researching and trying to find an answer to the following question I posted earlier ...

Why did the D.O. Cunningham Glass Company not produce any Coca Cola contour/hobbleskirt bottles?

There is ample evidence of D.O.C. marked straight-sided Coca Cola bottles, but not a single hobbleskirt that I am aware of. And please believe me, I've looked!

If you consider yourself an advanced researcher and have a few tricks up your sleeve, finding an answer to my question might serve as a good challenge because I honestly believe there is an answer to my question out there "somewhere." But I guess I'm not an advanced researcher myself because so far I have yet to find the answer even though I continue to look.

During the course of my recent research I came across this link ...

http://xrl.us/bo9b9n

... which opens to page 11 of a 1924 article from a series of magazines published by the International Cork Company / Re-Ly-On Bottler. The magazine(s) contain a lot of interesting articles and pictures, many of which have references to various (A.B.C.B.) American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages conventions.

What I found most interesting about the information on Page 11 is the list of EXHIBITORS at the 1924 A.B.C.B. convention that was held in Louisville, Kentucky and where it list ...

Coca Cola Company - Spaces 605, 607

D.O. Cunningham Glass Company - Space 636

Graham Glass Company - Spaces 307, 408

So here we have an example of all three companies apparently still in business in 1924 and still rubbing elbows with each other and yet ...

1. The D.O. Cunningham Glass Company was just a few spaces down from Coca Cola but never made a hobbleskirt bottle.

2. The Graham Glass Company sold out in 1916 but was still represented in 1924.

Anyhoo ~ Long story short ...

If you have information as to why the D.O. Cunningham Glass Company never produced Coca Cola bottles after 1916-1917, please share that information with us.

Thanks a lot.

Bob

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

RE: Pepsi Pinch Bottle

P.S. ~

In the 30+ years that I have been collecting and researching soda bottles, I find it interesting that, until just recently, I never once heard of ...

Re-Ly-On Crown Bottle Caps

 

[epackage]

RE: Pepsi Pinch Bottle

My guess is they wanted too much money...

 

[celerycola]

RE: D.O.C.

Lowest D.O.C. mold number I have seen on a Coca-Cola bottle. This circa 1904 Soda Water bottle is marked D.O.C. 13.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

RE: Pepsi Pinch Bottle

ORIGINAL: epackage

My guess is they wanted too much money...

Jim / epackage ~

By "they" do you mean the "Coca Cola Company" wanted too much money, which I interpret as also meaning there was not enough profit margin for D.O.C. to make the new contour/hobbleskirt bottles.

Or ...

By "they" do you mean "D.O.C." wanted too much money from the Coca Cola bottlers for producing the new contour/hobbleskirt, thus resulting in D.O.C. not getting any orders?

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As a side note regarding D.O.C's. stability during that era ... (Providing the information is accurate)

Open the following link and then click on the blue "Page 158." And then read the paragraph which starts with ...

"In 1912, ..."

http://xrl.us/bo9z47

Key phrases to look for ...

1. 250 hands in 1920
2. exclusively making soda bottles
3. annual production was 800,000 gross of bottles
4. Like most successful companies
5. The large number of machine-made bottles attests to this transition

Thanks.

Bob

P.S. ~ If the blue Page 158 doesn't work the first time, close it and try again.

 

[epackage]

RE: Pepsi Pinch Bottle

DOC wanted too much money, overplayed their hand, and PO'd the folks at Coke and got the boot...

 

[AlexD]

RE: Pepsi Pinch Bottle

ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB

I had this picture in my photo gallery but not sure when or where I got it. I titled it ...

Coca Cola Bottle D.O.C. 1183

Hope I'm not butting in too late... [&:]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

RE: Pepsi Pinch Bottle

AlexD ~

Thanks for sharing the pic of your bottle. It helps confirm the cropped image I posted.

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Additionally ...

I realize that just because H.V. Cunningham (of the D.O. Cunningham Glass Company) attended the Coca Cola Bottlers Convention in 1916 doesn't necessarily mean that company entered a prototype design. But I still wonder why they never produced a Coca Cola hobbleskirt bottle? It could very well have something to do with them wanting too much in return for producing the bottles, and yet, even with that said, it in turn makes me wonder why they did produce Pepsi Cola bottles?

Check out the following and you'll see what I mean ...

Bob

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D.O.C. / Domenic O'Connor Cunningham Glass Company

1917 Ad

http://xrl.us/bpaf6e

1922 Ad (Pepsi-Cola) (Whistle)

http://xrl.us/bpaf6x

eBay ~ 1923 Pepsi-Cola bottle ~ D.O.C.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1923-Pepsi-Cola-Bottle-DOC-VA-Script-Drum-embossed-vintage-soda-straight-/140974005800?nma=true&si=THZesP0R%252BB%252BOam3oXTKcCGe%252FmXU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

RE: Pepsi Pinch Bottle

Heel of 1923 Pepsi Cola bottle from eBay ...