Pepsi-cola / deco / basket-weave / soda bottle design pattern

[SODAPOPBOB]

Here's a sampling of some of the stuff I'm working and trying to make sense of. I'm not sure yet if Morris "Farmer" Steelman was related to James S. Steelman or not, but once I make some definite connections I will put everything together as best I can in a brief.

Jesse S. Steelman ~ Born 1872 ~ Might be James S Steelman's father, uncle or some other relation ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=geIGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA260&lpg=PA260&dq=steelman+glass+millville+new+jersey&source=bl&ots=jnO9mDu10v&sig=d2czhtLyCj-ZEwa2VkGDICRBDrI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_MgSUqrEKcqMyQGWwIDoCg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=steelman%20glass%20millville%20new%20jersey&f=false

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Gayner Glass Works ~ Salem, New Jersey ~ June 1915

"Another well known and popular worker at this place is J. S. Steelman, who also worked in Alton, Ill., a few years back. Mr. Steelman is originally from Millville, N. J. He will represent this local at the coming convention to be held in East St. Louis, Ill."

http://reference.insulators.info/publications/view/?id=6469

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Morris "Farmer" Steelman ~ Born 1875 ~ Baseball Player ~ Millville, New Jersey

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/steelfa01.shtml

Baseball Almanac

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=steelfa01

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. ~

Because I can't find a specific genealogy for James S. Steelman, I have to search outside of the box and hopefully find some of his relations and possibly connect the dots in that manner. Its not easy and requires hours of time, but I enjoy it and I guess that's what counts most. And because I consider soda bottle collecting to still be in a certain state of infancy, I expect one of these days someone will come along and do an indepth publication about all of those amazing designers who came up with the wonderful soda bottles that we covet and collect today.

Bob

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

I'm still not sure if the 1940 census record I found earlier for James S. Steelman, who was born in 1892 and was a glass factory mold maker from Millville, New Jersey is the Pepsi Cola bottle designer. Nor am I certain if the gravestone pictured below is the same man. But you just gotta wonder how many James S. Steelman's could there possibly be from Millville, New Jersey?

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=STE&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=33&GScntry=4&GSsr=1121&GRid=25595890&

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Mount Pleasant Cemetery ~ Millville, New Jersey

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

And who the heck was Lewis Steelman from Millville, New Jersey? Was he James' father or possibly an uncle? Whoever he was, he was in cahoots with Walter S. Wheaton in 1910. By the way, the Wheaton Glass Company was also located in Millville. But I couldn't find anything about the "Millville Glass Manufacturing Company" that's mentioned in the link.

http://xrl.us/bpo46b

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"T.C.Wheaton Glass Company, later “Wheaton Glass Company†, “Wheaton Industriesâ€, (now Wheaton) , Millville, New Jersey (1888-to date)."

http://www.glassbottlemarks.com/bottlemarks-3/

 

[morbious_fod]

May be referring to the Malaga & Millville Glass Company, sometimes listed as Malaga and Millville Glass. There were tons of glass companies in the Glassboro and Millville area at one time. This company existed as early as 1904 and could have been bought and renamed.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Morb ~

Thanks for lending a hand - I appreciate it and am keeping notes.

Bob

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I found this on another forum and thought it was mucho interesting. Credit goes to member 60miller. (Unedited)


You heard of the Christmas Cokes dated December 25, 1923. Well now there is the Valentines Day Pepsi Bottle. This is the factory shelf Bottle from the Whitall Tatum Glass Company, which was sold to Armstrong. The bottle style is the first standardized Pepsi Cola bottle form that Pepsi adopted in 1940 with the red, white, and blue. THis bottle never had the red, white, and blue label applied. It has the Pepsi Cola logo embossed around the neck of this crown top bottle, and the base is embossed with Des. PAT APP. FOR A40. The Shelf sample label was confirmed by several Whitall Tatum experts. Pepsi bottles were made at the Whitall Tatum plant and had pyro enamel sprayed onto them for the colored logo. THe pepsi bottle is next to an known factory shelf CSC insulator with the Armstrong paper label from 1946. THe label design matches. The label reads: Shelf Sample, Pepsi Cola Co., 12oz RD Beverage, Wt. 14oz, Cont. 12oz @ 14 oz STD WGT., 7 1/8" From Bottom, m.s.o. 2 - 14 -40, reg. w -293. The 12 oz refers to what the cotents of the bottle would hold, and the 14 oz is the weight of the glass bottle ( we weighed it). The m.s.o. is the date of February 14, 1940, Valentines Day. THe W- 293 must be some whitall tatum product code.

The bottle is a Whitall Tatum Factory bottle, but it was made during the Armstrong era, as Armstrong had just bought out Whitall Tatum a year or two prior. This is the factory shelf sample bottle from the Millville, NJ plant.

Although it looks like a plain old clear Pepsi bottle; It is a one of a kind bottle with huge historical significance.

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Now compare the date on the Valentine bottle ...

2-14-40 = February 14, 1940

to the date on the patent ...

Filed: February 6, 1940
Patented: April 30, 1940

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

P.S. ~

I wonder what M. S. O. stands for on the Pepsi shelf sample bottle?

 

[bottleopop]

The 6.5oz Brownie embossed bottle has essentially the same 'weave' pattern on it.
There are some of them on ebay now. (Ignore the 4-brownie 7oz embossed version.)
Check patent D69353.

 

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ORIGINAL: SODAPOPBOB

P.S. ~

I wonder what M. S. O. stands for on the Pepsi shelf sample bottle?

Manufacturers Statement of Origin