Dr Pepper Help...

[ROBDABOLINA]

is this the 'transition' bottle? thanks in advance!

 

[ACLbottles]

Yes, that's the transition bottle. What's the city? Most of these will have 51 on the bottom.

 

[ROBDABOLINA]

cool, this one's from San Antonio, Texas, however there's no date anywhere...

 

[OsiaBoyce]

Transition? From what to what?

 

[ROBDABOLINA]

I think its from the clear 'Good for Life' bottle with the clock to the green bottle without the clock...

 

[OsiaBoyce]

Could not the same be said about the painted lables? Such as............................https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/Dr-Pepper-super-rare-transistion-bottles-m444577.aspx

 

[ROBDABOLINA]

I guess if the bottle has characteristics of both the older and newer variant, then it could be called a transition bottle. I admit I know very little about ACL bottles...

 

[morbious_fod]

A Transition bottle is a "missing link" between two much more common bottles. The green "good for life" is a classic example especially when we have several different towns involved which points to this being what is referred to in Action Figure collecting circles as a running change which appears to be a product wide decision. The fact that all of these I have ever seen are 1951 also supports the assumption that this was a company wide transition.

I personally own three of the transition bottle originally posted. One from Bluefield, VA, Marion, VA, and one with no town. If they were used by these two backwoods towns by companies whose only connection was Dr. Pepper then this had to have been a true transition. I have also seen these from other towns, but I don't collect them.

To be honest with you seeing as the other "transition" bottles mentioned are much more rare they should either come under the term of prototype, or manufacturing mistake in the case of the 1950's to 1960's acl.

 

[jays emporium]

Could not the same be said about the painted lables? Such as............................https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/Dr-Pepper-super-rare-transistion-bottles-m444577.aspx

The Dr Pepper bottles in this link with ACL on the neck and debossed lettering on the bottle are very rare. I classify them as a "test issue". I have talked to two people recently who have examples of that bottle and they tell me they bought them in retail stores in the late 1950s in central Texas. So I believe they were actually in circulation for a short time in limited locations. I have never seen one of those sell but one might make it to the auction at the Dr Pepper collectors convention in Waco this year if the owner decides to part with it.