went for a bike ride , found a couple pop bottles

[deenodean]

Great story!

 

[RCO]

I guess you have a couple of Muskoka Dry variants by now.

well yeah there is a number of different muskoka dry bottles they used , also a 7 oz acl version and a 10 oz acl version used late 50's - 60's era . there is even a another variant of the bottle I found yesterday , exact same bottle and markings but is a version that just has Brown's Beverages on bottom no mention of muskoka dry on bottle but used for a lemon/lime drink they also had , attached a picture of one I have found before .

 

[RCO]

went for another bike ride , it rained so I though it might have revealed some more bottles as its a very busy road and likely a lot of bottles tossed over the years and summer is very busy here . biggest haul so far . a Kist , Canada Dry wink , Crush and a Mountain Dew. all in pretty good condition considering they have been outdoors in sand and leaves since the 50's-60's . but looking at how they dug things up I suspect a lot more bottles have been lost and taken away in the dirt being removed

 

[RCO]

the kist is in good condition but some damage to bottle likely from heavy equipment , scratchs and such on it look recent . the mountain dew is an odd find for around here , I have never found one before and not sure what year it came to Canada so suspect its an American bottle . don't see a Canadian distributor listed in my book . maybe an American tourist tossed it at some point ? a lot would of passed thru here , not sure what year bottle is from ? its the hillbilly acl version

 

[2find4me]

Who was the Mt. Dew filled by? Can't quite see from the pics. Might be able to tell the date from the embossing on the base.

 

[RCO]

says filled by Herb and Ruby . no city or bottler is on bottle , might be Canadian ? is a D stamp on bottom , which is usually Dominion Glass a large Canadian glass maker back then . but still an odd find , never found this bottle before in any condition around here

 

[CanadianBottles]

Hi, been meaning to join this forum for a while now. I was going to introduce myself with the traditional "What is it?" post, but I figured out what the bottle I was going to ask about was, so I figure I'll just start posting. Anyway, that Mountain Dew is definitely Canadian, I've got one bottled by Barney and Ally (I think) and the design was definitely used in Canada. They don't turn up too much though, I rarely see even shards of them. Also, that Walker's Beverages is interesting, I didn't know that those generic mold bottles ever came in green. Too bad it's broken. I found a Breuvages Excel bottle from Bourget, ON damaged the exact same way, and infuriatingly it's one of only two ACL bottles I've ever found in the wild with perfect labels (the other one being a Sun Crest I found years ago). Still kept it though, only one I've ever seen in person.

 

[RCO]

the Breuvages excel bottle from Bourget would be rare , my book lists it as only operating in 1954 ? for 1 year ? however it also shows Excel is having operated for longer 1955-1965 or later . so not sure what version yours was but being such a small town likely hard to find any bottles from that company now

 

[RCO]

only found 1 interesting bottle tonight , a 7 up NDNR 10 oz green bottle , have found a lot of NDNR bottles before but not a 7 up till now , looks nice in picture but has scratch on side unfortuently . other than that mostly junk liquor bottles , unbelievable how many are along this road , have found dozens so far could fill a recycling bin with them

 

[CanadianBottles]

Thanks for the info on the Excel bottle! I checked mine and sure enough, dated 1954 on the bottom. I think I might know the reason for the year discrepancies, I've also seen a "Mr." bottle bottled by Excel Beverages in Ottawa. They probably moved, as I can't imagine there being much business in Bourget anyway (pretty small place). I've always kicked myself for not buying the Mr., I saw another one at a different table for half the price, bought that one not knowing that Mr. was a franchise product, and only upon getting home did I realize it was bottled by Grapette Beverages in Montreal. I'll have to keep an eye out for an Ottawa version (I collect Eastern Ontario bottles).Even though they're not what I collect I've always liked those NDNR bottles, but strangely have never found any apart from the thin-sided regular Coke bottles. Maybe I need to do more searching along roadsides.