ss coke for sure this time!

[Shagnasty]

got out for a while with longneck a few days ago we made the 3/4 mile limp back the canal and went to our holes to clean them out i just got my hole cleaned out and did something to my back then my right foot started to tingle[][:'(][] so that was all the digging i was going to do(i still had to git my sorry but outa there!) i limped over to see how longneck was doing and he was not finding anything good so i asked him if he wanted to come down and dig in my hole we have a deal my hole is mine and his hole is his but mine had some older stuff comeing out so i figured he might as well dig it but i told him if anything that i was after came out it was mine![]

here is one of longneck tearing it up

 

[Shagnasty]

he got in there and pulled out two ss newark coke flavor bottles one right after the other i had pulled a few out for my self so he got to keep them then he pulled out a clear ss coke but it has a big chip out of it[:'(] but it was a newark ss coke and he liked it and because jguis had given me a mint one he got to keep it too after that he dug out a ss aqua coke from newark and i had to tax him on that one[]

 

[Shagnasty]

its a little beat up but thats ok i think its great!

 

[Shagnasty]

front

 

[Shagnasty]

back

 

[Shagnasty]

E on the bottom right below the wa in newark there is a verry light 23n do ya'all think that is the date

 

[capsoda]

Hey Shag, Great pics and a great find too. The Newark bottles are concidered scarce. Cool.

 

[bottlenutboy]

i dont think that is the date because the hobs were patented in 1915 and according to porters book they went into production in 1917 so 23 would be when the christmas coke was patented and im sure by the time the second hobbleskirt was coming out they had stopped making staight sides

 

[capsoda]

Straight sided bottles were used in some areas on into the late 1920s. Coca Cola sent out agents to the bottlers who would not fall in line with the new hobble skirts and bought them out. In Pensacola SS bottles were used until 1924.

 

[bottlenutboy]

keyword USED but not manufactured....they were manufactured only till the hobs were started then ss production was halted