COCA COLA BOTTLE "CAP" - (Help w/ID-Date)

[SODAPOPBOB]

The photo below is of an early Coca Cola bottle cap I have - and one which I have been attempting to date and/or identify. The image is a little blurry - and it reads as follows from top to bottom ...

MINIMUM CONTENTS
6
FLUID OZS
COCA COLA
REG. U.S. PAT OFF
COLORED WITH CARMEL
CRASS COCA COLA BOT'G
PLANTS
RICHMOND, VA.
(Unseen in the photo - On the side of the cap is the number 8)

I always try and do my research first, but this particular cap has me stumped. Following this first page will be a couple of others with additional photos to help better illustrate the full nature of this query.

Thanks in advance to all who reply.

SODAPOPBOB

MY CAP

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Circa 1911 cap - Amber Root Bottle

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Circa 1915 Cap - Hobbleskirt Bottle

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Circa 1923 Cap - Hobbleskirt Bottle

 

[OsiaBoyce]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY5x8pF512k

Early 30s

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Please Note : I have determined that the Richmond, VA. plant opened around 1907. And that because it has "Minimum Contents" on it, it would date it around 1914 or later.

My questions are as follows ...

1. What does the word "CASS" refer to?
2. What year was this cap produced?
3. What does the number 8 represent?

If you have the answers to my questions, or any other info about this subject you would like to share, please let me know.

Thanks again,

SPB

 

[digdug]

The 'Crass' on the cap refers to a Family (Last name Crass) that owned around 40 different Coca-Cola bottling plants in Virginia, West Virginia and I think Maryland. Try to do a search at google on Crass Coca-Cola, something should come up.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

OsiaBoyce ~

Thank you for the response - but I need to ask if you are sure about the early 1930s date? Although I don't have an exact chronological photo file on Coca Cola caps, everything I have seen "so far" from the 1930s look like the one shown below.

digdug ~

Thanks. I Googled the name but so far didn't find what I was looking for. But I intend to check again.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I've looked at so many Coca Cola bottle caps my eyes are going blurry. But I cannot find anything quite like the one in question here. Regarding the 1930s examples, I keep coming up with images like the one in this magazine ad from December of 1932.

Most of what I have seen so far have a silverish/gray looking backgrounds. But mine has a tannish/beigh background.

Its no big deal really. I was just wondering if it was possible to determine if it came from a straight-sided bottle, or a Hobbleskirt?

Thanks again,

SPB

 

[OsiaBoyce]

I'm purty sure of it. See the one top left? Same thing sans the xtra info. Oldest I got. There's somebody out there that can tell you the exact date, I can't, but I know where to find them.