Help wih a coca cola bottle!

[CCB420]

So a customer of mine has two old coke bottles she's found, or were given to her I'm not sure, but she offered to give em to me, I just haven't got then yet! So last time I was at her house I noticed something! Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the older cokes were "Christmas" cokes with the Dec 25 date, then they went to the D-Pat's? Is this not correct? She has one that doesn't have "Dec 25" or "D-Pat....."?? Just says "trademark registered with US patent office" on one side, then "trademark registered, net contents 6 1/2 oz"?? It's from Natchitoches, La (pronounced nak-a-tish) and the date code read 58-99. Is this bottle anything special, or was my initial assumption of the bottles going from Christmas to D-Pat wrong

 

[hemihampton]

older Cokes go from 1915 dates to 1923 Christmas dates to D-Patents to no D-Patents. Straight sided before 1915. yours dates to 1958. common bottle. probably worth from $1-$5. just my opinion. others may vary. Leon.

 

[CCB420]

OK so there is a period, following the "D-Pat" time, when the bottles that just had "trademark registered with us patent office" without the "bottle pat. D-105529" or the "bottle pat'd Dec 25, 1923"? I was looking through all my coke bottles, which are all pat-d's except for the 1 Christmas coke that somehow broke right where the cap sealed the bottle! I can't see how a bottle could break like this one, I mean it's just the very top ring of the thing, in fact I looked at it for probably 30 min before noticing! Anyway, before I get too sidetracked, they all are "pat-d's", at least until we get to white, painted logos! I wasn't aware, or at least remember seeing, any other bottles, before the colored ACL age, where the bottle didn't have the "dec 25..." or "d-pat...", but I am pretty new to the field, learning new things every day!!

 

[hemihampton]

D-Patents date from 1938-51. US Patents date from 51-57. ACL's started around 57. but, sometimes the switch might not be so fast & some bottles can over lap in time frames.

 

[CCB420]

Probably the nicest D-pat I've found has a date code that definitely starts with a 2 but that next # is not very legible, looks like a 0 or maybe an 8???

 

[dab46]

been collecting a long time,the only coke bottles I would save is a straight sided ones,are their any hobble skirt bottles that are really rare or valuable to look for?

 

[bottlebugs]

early pat 16s and prototypes...