Orange crush bottle

[Bumpa66]

I found this orange crush bottle in an old cellar hole I have been digging. It's embossed on the front with "Orange Crush Bottling Company, Greenville KY". It also has 6 1/2 FLU OZS. There is a big "L" embossed on the bottom. It is a light aqua color. Any help on the age or the history would be great.

 

[Bumpa66]

Close up.

 

[Bumpa66]

Bottom

 

[zecritr]

cool bottle
course I'm in KY lol
1920's probably or that era is about all i know at this point,still cool bottle

 

[zecritr]

The Orange Crush Bottling Co. has been incorporated at Greenville, with capital of $50,000. Officers are J. S. Salley, president; J. W. Culler, vice-president, and A. C. Watson, secretary and treasurer.

Tis under North Carolina....So did the writers get it wrong in exactly were that Greenville was?

http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA1-PA66&lpg=RA1-PA66&dq=orange+crush+bottling+company,greenville,KY&sig=s2iJk3o8uEH8Y9fsp1Ln2VauAio&ei=MLd5Ua-8BYLoqAGvpYHIBQ&id=LZZRAAAAYAAJ&ots=hFVy5Z2N0M&output=text

 

[MisterSilverSearcher]

Sweet, never seen a crush with a slugplate before.

 

[madman]

nice find!

 

[GACDIG]

I found one many years ago here in NC. I always wonder was it an Orange Crush flavor bottle or a pre date bottle of the 1920 bottle we all know of. [8|]

 

[RCO]

neat bottle , so it has nothing to do with the larger orange crush company but in fact a smaller independent that existed in that area ? i guess orange flavoured drinks were popular back then so it wouldn't be uncommon for bottlers to use orange in there name . never seen one use crush though .

 

[morbious_fod]

It is most likely that it is a soda water bottle from the Orange Crush Bottling Company of this particular town, which would have held various possible brands or flavors; however, that being said it is also possible that it was used in a Pre-Krinkle bottle era to bottle Orange Crush. As this 1919 ad shows below, prior to the creation of the famous krinkle deco bottle it was bottled in a straight side bottle with just a paper label. The Krinkle was introduced in 1920.