Hershey Chocolate Corporation

[hogpaw]

My wife found this bottle at a garage sale and I cannot find any information about it on the web. The bottle is brown in color and on both sides says "Hershey Chocolate Corporation". This side has an emblem that looks like a factory (it has a smoke stack sticking up) and says "Manufacturer of Chocolate & Cocoa"

 

[hogpaw]

This side has what appears to be a child with a glass of steaming hot cocoa.
BTW: The bottle is 9" tall.
Anyone have any ideas? I am not a collector but this is a neat bottle.

 

[hogpaw]

Let me toss in one more side shot of the bottle. It shows the mold line stopping at the lip.

 

[woody]

Hmmm..... interesting.
It may have been commisioned by Hershey corp. for an anniversary.
I assume it held chocolate syrup.
Maybe it originally came in bottles.
I can't say that I've ever seen one before.

 

[Flaschenjager]

Hogpaw - Welcome to Antique-Bottles.net
The bottom may tell us more. Are there any marks, numbers or embossing? Maybe a picture of this will help us locate some more info. for you. Thanks.

 

[hogpaw]

Here is a photo of the bottom of the bottle. The only marking I saw was where the rod was attached.
There is what appear to be initials on the side of the bottle with the child drinking the cocoa. On the left of the child are the initials GDW and on the right are the initials MH. These initials do not appear to be engraved into the die. They appear to be scratched into the die after it was made.

 

[woody]

I've seen that type of pontil scar on newer, reproduced bottles.

 

[hogpaw]

Thanks for the information so far.

I put out an email. Hopefully they will answer. I also found a memorabilia site for Hershey but the membership looked small and they didn't have any bottles listed. Nevertheless I emailed all of them and will see if something doesn't pan out. Meanwhile if someone has any further ideas, i am open.

 

[woody]

I did find that the MH probably stands for Milton Hershey.

http://www.hersheys.com/about/milton.shtml

The pontil scar on the bottle doesn't coincide with the date that Hersheys' was established. Early 1900's.