EARLIEST ACL SODA BOTTLE(S) ?

[SODAPOPBOB]

ORIGINAL: madman

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madman ~

I'm curious about your ???????????? bottle. Please see the photo below of the base of my "Tom Tucker" bottle that I posted on page 2 of this thread. The two bases are "identical?" You may recall that morbious_fod drew my attention to the lip of my bottle where I found a small letter "R" embossed on it. It turned out that the "R" was the Glenshaw Glass Company's code for 1946. I'm not sure exactly what all the question marks are referring to, but if you haven't done it already, you might want to check the lip of your bottle and see if there is a small letter on it. If so, this will be the date it was made. By the way, what brand is your mystery bottle? (I have the Glenshaw code list if you don't and need it).

Thanks,

SPB

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

ORIGINAL: madman

nice lable i need one for a squat 1937 knoxville

madman ~

P.S.

Pardon me for being kind of "slow" these days, but I just now put two-and-two together and realized your ????????? bottle may be the squat 1937 Knoxville you are referring to. Initially I thought by "squat" you meant one of the early amber 7ups. But the photo of the base you posted doesn't look like a squat bottle. It looks slimmer, and you can see all the way to the neck. So I guess I'm still a little confused.

Thanks again,

SPB

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S ~ P.S.

madman ~

Regarding the 1937 on the base of my Tom Tucker bottle ... As I just mentioned, it turned out "not" to be the date the bottle was made. And even though this was never fully addressed (Maybe morbious_fod knows) it is apparently referring to some other aspect of the bottle ... possibly the year the brand was introduced, or perhaps a patent date. And your 1937 base may be a victim of the same fate. ????????????

SPB

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I thought this would be a good time and place to post the Glenshaw code information as a reference for those who don't have it readily available. It was at my finger-tips all along, but it wasn't until morbious_fod drew attention to it that I realized I had it. Thanks Morb!

 

[madman]

bob great info! my bottle is not from 1937 lol it does not have a letter on the top so that makes it later right? and the squat bottle i was speaking of was reffering to your pix above of those paper lables for 7ups anybody got any repo lables for the squat 7up?

 

[madman]

bob the glenshaw soda bottle, is a fruit bowl soda, from houston texas, bottled in youngstown ohio, and no i didnt have the glenshaw chart , thank you very much for posting it, ive learned alot about dating acls this week. from you and morb! thanks guys!!!

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

madman ~

Since the base of your "Fruit Bowl Soda" has the makers mark plus the mysterious 1937, but no actual date like a ... 5 < symbol > 7 (which indicates 1957 on the "Fruit Bowl" bottle I have in my collection) then I'll bet you a root beer there is a letter on the thickest part of the lip. I may be wrong, but take a another look at the lip ... the letter could be so small that you may have to use a magnifying glass to see it. I just learned about this myself the other day, and when I first checked for the letter, I didn't see it and was about to give up. Then I broke out my super-duper magnifying glass, and sure enough, there it was ... a capital "R" for 1946. It blew my mind when I finally saw it! Break out that mag-glass and let us know what you come up with. And if you don't have a mag-glass, just ask Morb to loan you one - I'm sure he won't mind. Lol

Thanks,

SPB

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

madman ~

Find it yet?

I'm really asking a lot for you to see the capital letter R in this photo, but it's there. My camera doesn't have the closeup/focus features I need ... but if you look dead-center at the base of the lip, you'll see it. The book shows the letters as being a little higher on the lip, but the one on mine is almost where the lip becomes the upper neck. Even knowing the R was there, I still had to use a mag-glass to find it again.

Your letter may not be an R , but some other number. Check the book from above again for details.

Good luck, and don't give up. I still bet you a root beer that a letter of some kind is somewhere on the lip!

SPB

This particular photo is the best of about 40 that I took.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

~ P.S. ~

See that little white line about two fingers up from the bottom of the lip? That's the very top of the R ... The R is about the size of a dime. Fantastic! I knew you would see it eventually.

SPB

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Where the heck is that "Fix-it/Delete" button?

Correction ... Where I said your R may be some other "number," I meant some other "letter."

Sorry about all of this ...

SPB