Neat 18 panel Coca Cola bottle from Needles, California

[Floridabottledude]

Here is a Coca Cola flavor bottle from the small desert town of Needles, California from what looks like 1931.

 

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Bottom

 

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Crown -31

 

[Floridabottledude]

I feel like I have seen this triangle shape before 3^1

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

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Great find!

I drive through Needles, California from time to time on my way to the (tourist) ghost town of Oatman, Arizona. I've never seen a Coca Cola bottle anything like it and suspect that very few other collectors have either.

Thanks for sharing.

Bob

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

ORIGINAL: Floridabottledude

I feel like I have seen this triangle shape before 3^1

I suspect the makers mark is related to ...

◾P/C in duo-segmented parallelogram……….Pacific Coast Glass Works (1902-1925) and Pacific Coast Glass Company, San Francisco, California (1925-1930). This mark was introduced in 1919, and used on ware until about 1930. Source on 1919 date: Peterson (1968:49).

◾P/C in a square……..Pacific Coast Glass Works (1902-1925) and Pacific Coast Glass Company, San Francisco, California (1925-1930). This mark was used possibly as early as 1919, but was definitely in use by 1925. See other “P.C.†entries.

◾P C in a triangle……….Pacific Coast Glass Works (1902-1925) and Pacific Coast Glass Company, San Francisco, CA (1925-1930). Mark was first used in either 1919 or 1925.

◾P.C………………..Pacific Coast Glass Works (1902-1925) and it’s successor Pacific Coast Glass Company, San Francisco, CA (1925-1930). The PC mark probably dates from either 1919, or 1925, and on up to 1930.

◾P.C.G.W…………….Paciic Coast Glass Works, San Francisco, CA (1902-1925). See “P.C.†marks.

 

[Floridabottledude]

I used to live in Bullhead City, Arizona and I too would visit the Donkey infested little town of Oatman. Ya gotta love the Donkeys! I once went looking in the ditches just outside town and found a pre-pro whiskey flask. I bet there is a lot to find there.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Slightly off topic ...

But speaking of finds near Oatman, I found the sign pictured below on the shoulder of old Route 66 about two miles north of town. It's shaped like an arrow and says ...

Wal-A-Pai Auto Court ~ Kingman (Kingman is in Arizona and is where actor Andy Devine grew up).

I'm not certain of the date but believe it's from the late 1930s or early 1940s.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

1940s postcard ...

 

[Floridabottledude]

That's a nice find indeed. The desert has claimed a lot of treasures. I used to go outside Kingman on Route 66 and search the side of the roads. I could do that for hours. I found 100's of 1960's 1970's throw away ndnr's. I only kept a few. I thought they were too new. They are starting to come around. I might have to revisit, with the hard ground, most are sitting right on the surface with no brush covering them. I did find lots of 1950's Hobbleskirts too!