Olive-Coke & Crush

[digginthedog]

Anyone know the story on these Binghamton NY bottles, the aqua crush is common ,the other not so much, both tooled crown, so are these bottles some of the oldest for the Crush company ? The Coca Cola is tooled lip as well and a tough find, did this contain Coke ? or some other flavor? also is the Binghamton Coke the only Olive colored straight side made ? Thanks -JB

 

[morbious_fod]

Orange Crush was created in 1916 and didn't patent the krinkly bottle until 1920, so there was a period of time when straight side bottles were used. These could just as easily be soda water bottles for this partcular bottling company and never held Orange Crush at all. The same goes for the Coca-Cola, the rule of thumb is that unless the name is in script it is a soda water.

Those are some nice bottles.

 

[Anthonicia]

The coca cola bottles most likely contained flavored beverages. The green/olive color generally means it contained ginger ale or soda water. All of the bottles kind of resemble the coca cola star bottles which contained soda water. The Orange Crush is cool. I can't say I have seen a lot of any of these bottles, but it isn't exactly my forte either.

Someone should be along here soon with more exacting details.

Sorry morb, I was typing while u posted... but yeah, what morbious says goes.

 

[digginthedog]

Thanks for the info guys, My thoughts on the Coco-Cola is that these came from a pretty early bottling co.,at least for Coco-Cola in the northeast, I would think from this era (pre-1920) ,there would be some script bottles from them as well, you just don't see or dig script coke's around here, anyhow one last pic of the 2 bottles I have.

 

[McCoke]

I have the Binghampton Coke in Aqua and 2 different shades of olive. All applied tops and crude. Most likely for flavors, but bottlling companies did break the rules back then. The only other olive straight sided Coke I know of is a script Machine-made bottle from Canada.

Tim

 

[digginthedog]

Thanks Tim, I've never seen the aqua version of these bottles, they are nice crude bottles ! JB

 

[fishnuts]

nice, interesting colors...