Hey Bob,SODAPOPBOB said:Hold the phone! Its starting to look as if the double-digit numbers that follow the style number 700 might not be dates but are some other type of code. I've even seen a 700-32 on a 7up bottle that I know for certain is not a 1932 ACL. I'm now thinking the mysterious double-digit numbers are connected in some way with the bottles style/shape. Hence, the so called [G] 700 52 Joe Louis Punch bottle was likely not made in 1952 but possibly earlier. Hey, squirtbob You're the resident expert on the [G] 700 bottles. Please help me out here and let us know what your take is on the double-digit numbers. Gracias' []
I just looked at all the Glenshaw squirt bottles in my collection that have a (G) 700 on the bottom. Here's a sample of the other numbers on the bottom ... 6,10,16,45,21,17,11,43,52,25,28,63,57,49,20,49,61,8 . All of these bottles could be positively identified by the lip code and the bottle type as coming from 1939-1947. In NO instance did the number match the date of the bottle. So the other numbers have absolutely nothing to do with the year of manufacture. The only thing out of the ordinary that I noticed while looking at these bottles is that I have a bottle with an S on the lip which also has an S on the bottom (a 1947 bottle) the other number on the base is 57. One other had an R on the lip and on the bottom (a 1946 bottle), the other number on the bottom was 40. These are the only two that I've seen that have the date code on the bottle twice and this is just another indicator that the dating from this era was determined by the letter and that the number means something else. I thought you had determined previously that the other number on the bottom was some type mold number??