Does anyone know why my beer bottle has a 1923 date code?

[HunterTheFox59]

I have this Rubsam & Horrmann beer bottle made by the American Bottle Company with 23 N marked on the heel. Prohibition would have been active at this point, so I'm not sure how it could have been produced. My only guess is that the bottle was used to bottle soda so the company could survive prohibition. Does anyone know for sure? Thanks

 

[gdog68]

If the bottle is from the prohibition era, it could be soda, or more likely I think it could be a "near beer" just containing very very low abv.

 

[coreya]

The 23N could be a mold mark to id the mold it came out of.

 

[HunterTheFox59]

The 23N could be a mold mark to id the mold it came out of.

I remember reading on the glass bottle marks website that the A.B.Co bottles have the date code followed by an N or an S, standing for the city they were made in. The bottle also has a 15, which might be the mold id.