Ragland, AL soda bottles- rare?

[KMeads]

Does anyone have any information on soda bottles from Ragland, AL, or know where to find any? My dad has 3 different Ragland bottles and they're the only ones we have ever seen. Ragland Bottling Works, Soda Water- property of Coca Cola, and Rye-Ola. I have photos if anyone is interested in seeing them.

 

[stumpknocker]

Yes, please post pictures.

 

[KMeads]

Ragland Bottling Works

 

[KMeads]

Rye-Ola - Ragland, AL

 

[KMeads]

Soda Water- property of Coca Cola - Ragland, AL on bottom

 

[zecritr]

Very Very Nice,
Hope someone has more info for you,great place for it and welcome

 

[madman]

VERY NICE LOVE THOSE EARLY CROWNS!

 

[celerycola]

I've never seen any of the three and I've spent forty years hunting bottles in Alabama.

Do You have any Oneonta bottles?

 

[celerycola]

This is probably J. T. Mewborn's bottle because it looks like the one he used at his Pell City plant. He bottled Coca-Cola under sub-contract from the Alabama Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Anniston. Mewborn opened his Ragland branch in 1910 and bottled soda water in addition to Coca-Cola. I haven't seen script, straightside, Coca-Cola embossed bottles from Ragland.

ORIGINAL: KMeads

Ragland Bottling Works

 

[celerycola]

This bottle is probably 1914 or later because it has the contents embossed as required by the Gould Amendment. Mewborn may have bottled Rye-Ola after losing his sub contract to bottle Coca-Cola. It is possible that a town as small as Ragland had two competing bottlers, one for Coca-Cola and one for Rye-Ola. The drink Rye-Ola originated in Birmingham.

ORIGINAL: KMeads

Rye-Ola - Ragland, AL