Heavy green 7up bottle

[The Trainwrecks]

I was organizing my husband's man cave and found a unusually heavy green 7up bottle. At 1st glance I only noticed that it is embossed and decided to get a better look- that is when I noticed if in the right light and angle- you can see that it is also an acl. This began my dead end research- what I do know is the bottle is machine made using semi- automatic due to the seams. I'll start with the lip has #s 37 on 1 side and G - I on the other. The acl is the slender lady with 8 bubbles and only 1 foot showing. The back states it is 7 oz and uses the for stomachs sake slogan but there is no location at the bottom of the writing which I've seen on every site. The heel of the bottle has the # 1537-3 and the bottom has a G inside a square and 7up embossed. I know this is a 1937 7up bottle and it's the Glenshaw glass Co but I for the life of me can't find another to compare with. I only ask for help here as I see you guys are very knowledgeable on the 7up topic. <Title change>

 

[squirtbob]

It is my understanding the letter mark on the lip of a Glenshaw manufactured bottle indicates the date of manufacture. I believe the number on the opposite side of lip, sometimes non-existant, has nothing to do with the date. Perhaps it's a mold number but I've seen several and they do not correspond to a date. For squirt bottles that I have the earliest one is "K" for 1939. I do have an Upper 10 bottle that is acl & embossed; it has a ring around the neck and is embossed on the base "Min. Conts. 6 Fl. OZ. Property of Nehi Bottling Co." Like yours the letter code on the neck is G1. I assume that the date code was begun that year and perhaps that's why the number 1 appears next to the G?? According to this scheme G1=1935, H=1936, I=1937, J=1938, K=1939, L=1940, etc until the 1950's. I can only confirm that for letters K & L and other letters in the 1940's. I've not seen one marked with H,I or J. I'll be curious to see what others think because I'm not sure how a 1935 date would work for an acl 7up bottle, although it would be possibe for the Upper 10.

 

[The Trainwrecks]

Thank you for a reply cause this has really boggled me and my husband. This was my husband's find as a little boy wondering in the woods and while his dad was clearing the land and moving dirt with a tractor - my husband spotted it and has held onto it since ( parents collected coins stamps etc.). I'm not sure being that we know nothing about bottles but do have a few which I have now dusted and stored much more properly than as before as to how a bottle of that age was in the middle of the woods buried in a town with a population of maybe 300 in east Texas??? I wouldn't be as curious if the bottle was from Texas but it's clearly a glenshaw bottle with no other location. I could be wrong and the G - I might be a G - i but it definitely has a G-??? 1 or i but would be upper case just typed it lower to help separate a possible confusion

 

[jays emporium]

This is interesting now with a G indicating 1935 wouldn't that make it one of the earliest ACL bottles ever made and the first swimsuit 7up?

 

[The Trainwrecks]

Here's a few pictures

 

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A few more

 

[M.C.Glass]

Personally, I believe it more possible that this bottle was made in '35 for a paper label and warehoused during the changover period until it was ACL'ed. Maybe even sent out with a paper label, only to return and be deemed minty enough to have a new ACL applied.My point being, it's not some unique rarity worth a fortune. Let's face it, it's damaged. The ACL is gone. But your husband, and I like it. []

 

[splante]

I think mcglass is on track with his assessment to bad the acl is worn away it would of been a really nice find,,I believe if I remember right the early 7 up acls 1935-37 were amber squat type bottles..sodapopbob has had a long running thread on oldest acl bottles you might be able to search it . A lot of good info came out of that threadI just found the old thread no need to search ithttps://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/EARLIEST-ACL-SODA-BOTTLES-m300938.aspx