Hobbleskirt Coke with 1916 date error

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. Dmellman If your error bottle is hand blown (BIM) and has an applied lip, according to the article it could very well be an "unmarked" Laurens Glass Works (LGW) bottle. Please tell me it's a BIM with an applied lip. []

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. ~ P.S. The article also says the unmarked LGW bottles did not have a comma between Nov 16 and 1915

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Remember this 1916 error bottle without a comma? Hmmm, I wonder?

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Triple P.S. Bill Porters Checklist book states ... "Laurens Glass Works, Laurens S.C.Until 1919: no mark (applied lip bottles)."

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

It is early ABM given the seams.

Are you saying the mold seams go up to and over the lip?

 

[Canadacan]

Remember this 1916 error bottle without a comma? Hmmm, I wonder?

Yea that could be the one?.....I guess like Bill said...nothing is absolute with some dates and details..it's as accurate as can be with bottles they had to sample, sometimes a larger sampling of bottles is required to draw a proper conclusion. I wonder if he actually knows this bottle?

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Here's the Laurens Glass Works portion of the 2010 Lockhart/Porter article. The word "punctuation" is referring to the lack of a comma between Nov 16 and 1915 [Cropped into two parts]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Here's one of the 1916 error bottles I came across and is the only one I could find with a picture of the lip. I don't see a distinct mold seam on the top of the lip, but there might be one that's hard to see.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I have a feeling Dmellman is going to inform us that his error bottle is machine made (ABM) and not hand blown in a mold (BIM). In anticipation of that announcement I draw your attention to the portion of the 2010 article I underlined in red where it says ... "At least one machine-made bottle was probably produced in late 1919."

 

[Dmellman]

I will post a detailed picture of the mold seams later. The bottle has a Parison mold seam with a fading ghost mold seam near the base and a blow mold seam, and a neck ring parting line. The finish seam is about 5 degrees from the Parison mold seam and extends to the top of the finish on both sides. There are no suction marks on the base that I can tell. It was most likely a semi-automatic blow and blow bottle machine. Interestingly, the Laurens Glass Works (LGW 21) bottle I posted has the same seams in the same orientation, same length, same degree apart, except the finish seam lines up exactly with the Parison mold seam. That bottle was marked as made in 1921. The coke bottle must be earlier, likely on the first installation of their new bottle machine (1919 maybe?) As you asked, on the base of the Coke there is no evidence of LGW at all. But the Porter article states the earlier bottles didn't have it. I will post pics later to show you what I am saying.