I recently purchased this at an antique mall and it is a 6 1/2 oz dr pepper bottle. It has the clock on the back that is pointing to 10, 2, and 4 which i believe is debossed.
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I recently purchased this at an antique mall and it is a 6 1/2 oz dr pepper bottle. It has the clock on the back that is pointing to 10, 2, and 4 which i believe is debossed.
Then later is this thread I saw the term "debassed". Now I am looking for a dictionary.
RED Matthews
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The term "debossed"is a Texas slang started by the biggest Dr Pepper expert in the US, a man named Bill Agee who lived in Waco, Texas, and is now deceased. He said the term "debossed" was the opposite of "embossed". Debossed meaning the Dr Pepper letters were cut into the glass, or depressed amd "embossed' meaing the letters Dr Pepper were raised. This is a way the bottle collectors in Texas describle the early Dr Pepper bottles from approx 1925 to 1950 by the Dr Pepper bottle experts. It is just an easy way to describe Dr Pepper bottles. If your talking "debossed" vs "embosse", the prices are very very different. The "embossed" bottles are rare because most had damgae from running thru the bottle cleaning machines and the letter were chipped and the bottles could not be used again, so the dealers went to the "debossed" bottles. Most were destroyed, thay is the reason they are rare.
I was talking to a dealer here in Texas, that told me he had two boys sit out back of his back door and and knock the tops off all the "embossed" bottles. He paid them .10 for each bottle to do so, and then they buried them!.
Need any more info, just holler, I helped write the The Dr Pepper Bottle and Price Guide book in color that was out a few years ago, thanx, Doyle