Washington NC bottles found during Pamlico River pull back . Blue Ver-Vac and Green E R Mixon & Co

[dream55vette]

It was windy here in Washington yesterday and that creates a fun day to look along the river shore line that gets pulled out. I found the two bottles and I am intrigued. First off it is so cool they were both made here in my town and second would love to have a idea of the age. I located other examples of Ver-Vac bottles with this same beautiful blue color and 6 1/2 oz on line, but they have a actual date on the bottom of the 1920's - this bottle has A G W 91-1 or if you flip it it would be 1 -16, but the A G W would be upside down.

The E R MIxon & Co has Washington NC and property of E R Mixon & Co and on the bottom says 9 OZ. So it is a nine ounce bottle. measured that too! The bill I found for E R Mixon was being offered on Ebay right now and it states that they were bottlers of Pepsi.

Any idea or suggestion of the dates of these bottles? I can't believe they were hiding right near my home for all these years and were not destroyed! So exciting.

I have found other bottles throughout the years, but none that were made in my town, so I love these. The blue color of the Ver-Vac is so stunning too as I had not seen that blue color before. I almost missed it as it was completely hidden except for a three inch side that made me pull it out of the sand.

Let me know how I can date these two bottles. Thank you.

 

[RCO]

neat , bottles often hide near rivers , especially older ones so not that uncommon to find them there . I don't know anything specific about them , other than there obviously older soda bottles from that era .

I would imagine there is more bottles in your area just based on its location and fact it has rivers

 

[dream55vette]

I picked up some liquor bottles and a catsup bottle that were in the 1940's era based on their markings when the river pulled out a number of years back , but these local bottles have some cool history for our town. Looking forward to seeing if anyone knows how old they may be. Thank you.

 

[RickNC]

Very cool. I'm in your area.

 

[dream55vette]

Well that is neat that you are in NC. RickNC what sort of age/date do you think these bottles are from? Does the A G W 91-1 or if tuned over 1 -16 have any meaning on the bottom of the Ver-Vac bottle?

 

[RCO]

I picked up some liquor bottles and a catsup bottle that were in the 1940's era based on their markings when the river pulled out a number of years back , but these local bottles have some cool history for our town. Looking forward to seeing if anyone knows how old they may be. Thank you.

I didn't offer a date in original post but likely from 20's > 40's era , somewhere in that age range , hard to say exactly but they've been there for a while

 

[dream55vette]

Wow. Really amazing for them to survive all those years on the river bottom. Thank you.