Just got a Rare Coca Cola Hobbleskirt

[Floridabottledude]

This one is Mint from Molokai, Territory Hawaii. Listed in Porter's book as Rare. Anyone else have some nice hobbleskirts to share?

 

[Floridabottledude]

Bottom

 

[Floridabottledude]

It's a Pat'D from 1951

 

[taditawolf]

Nice!

 

[epackage]

Last one to sell on Ebay brought $78, so it's a good bottle for sure....congrats

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

ORIGINAL: Floridabottledude

Anyone else have some nice hobbleskirts to share?

Its been said if you've seen one hobbleskirt that you've seen them all. And even though this may be true in some respects, because of the huge variety of different city/states and wide range of dates (1917 to 1957), the fully embossed hobbleskirt continues to be one of the most talked about and collected bottles in the world.

The one pictured here is a mint condition patent 1915 from Scranton, PA., which was made and distributed by the Root Glass Company in 1917. (Although the first hobbleskirts were patented in 1915, they were not distributed on the open market until 1917).

Soon after purchasing this bottle I contacted Jeff Dean about it (Jeff is the grandson of Earl Dean who designed the hobbleskirt/contour bottle in 1915) and Jeff said his grandfather was still working at Root Glass in 1917 as the mold shop foreman/bottle designer and was most likely there the day this bottle was made.

[ Embossed on the heel ... Root 17 ]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Years of distribution / issue from Bill Porter book ...

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Note:

There was a transition between c. 1955 and c. 1965 when the embossed and acl bottles were both being made during the same time period.

SPB

Here's the grandaddy of them all ...

[ 1915 Dean prototype sketch and bottle which sold in December of 2011 for a combined total of appx $500,000.00 ]

 

[CreekWalker]

WOW! Nice HS Pat D Coke! Love those anwsers too!

 

[Floridabottledude]

I currently have 152 different cities, mostly from the south and I know it would be very difficult to get all 1500 of them like Bill Porter, but it sure is fun to try and at only a few bucks, you won't spend an arm and a leg.