Rare Pepsi bottle

[sxsi]

Hi guys,

I found this bottle in a river in England but can't seem to find a comparison online. Is it rare? I'd love to know more, including value, even though I don't plan on selling it. Just want to know if I should take special care of it.

Many thanks

Simon (London)

'Si-finds' on Youtube

 

[slugplate]

2 things are important to know. 1 - Are there any base markings? 2 - Are there any other markings around the base or on the bottle? If there are none, chances are you may have a prototype bottle that has very good value to collectors. I have not seen anything like it before, but the script of Pepsi Cola on it looks like it's from the 1950s. I'm subscribed to your channel, have a bottle and relic hunting channel of my own and I certainly understand your excitement about the bottle.

 

[GLASSHOPPER55]

Interesting it has the very late 50s-and 60s swirl.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Hi Simon, welcome to the forum! I've watched your channel as well, I quite like your videos! I've never seen a Pepsi that looks like that before either, but we also don't get much British stuff on here so it wouldn't be at all surprising to me that you got different designs over there. The mid-century British soda bottles don't seem to be widely collected so there's really minimal documentation online of what was going on over there in that era.

 

[hemihampton]

Being non American not really surprised it don't look familiar. I doubt it's any type of Prototype. Just Foreign to us. LEON.

 

[sxsi]

Thanks guys, I took a photo of the base in case that helps. I wonder if we bottled pepsi over here? Although not sure why we would use this type of bottle, maybe the ACL type wasn't made over here and this is the British version.

 

[GLASSHOPPER55]

Thanks guys, I took a photo of the base in case that helps. I wonder if we bottled pepsi over here? Although not sure why we would use this type of bottle, maybe the ACL type wasn't made over here and this is the British version.

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