Gold Seal soda bottle by coca cola

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Just fooling around - on the first one pictured you can see the word ALE with the naked eye ...

 

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My uneducated guess is the red cap dates circa 1909-1911

 

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... and is from the United States and related to these items we saw earlier

 

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I have four editions of Allan Petretti's Coca Cola books which I'm going through page by page looking for anything related to Gold Seal Ginger Ale. Of the items I have found so far, everyone of them is from the Western Coca Cola Bottling Company in Chicago, Illinois and date between 1909 and 1912. It will take me several days to go through all four books and will post my findings when I'm done. I don't expect to find a Gold Seal paper label in the books but I'm convinced they exist.

 

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P.S. Based on tid-bits of information I've pieced together, its starting to look as if Gold Seal Ginger Ale was introduced in the United States around 1909 and was a solitary brand by that name and did not include other flavors. I'm thinking the Gold Seal flavor line was exclusive to Canada only and introduced around 1922.

 

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P.S. ~ P.S. I'm also researching the history of the Western Coca Cola Bottling Company in Chicago and hoping to find something there, but so far I haven't found very much.

 

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The "Western Coca Cola Bottling Company" in Chicago was considered a bit of a rebel bottler. Here's one of the reasons why ... http://www.legendaryauctions.com/lot-22753.aspx

 

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Note: I did not mean to imply that Gold Seal Ginger Ale was never produced or sold in Canada because it was. What I meant was, that Gold Seal Ginger Ale and Gold Seal flavor beverages were two different brands made by Coca Cola. But regardless of that, I'm sure you're going to enjoy my latest find. I just knew there was a paper label out there somewhere, and here it is on a straight sided bottle from ... The Ottawa Journal ~ Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ~ October 2, 1913

 

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Hmmm ... I wonder why the symbol on the 1913 Canadian bottle label is the same symbol on the 1909 letterhead from the Western Coca Cola Bottling Company in Chicago, Illinois?

 

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Side-By-Side 1. Chicago, Illinois 19092. Ottawa, Canada 1913