Posted 7 years ago
bigriver
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I'd like to get an idea of this coke bottle found in the basement of or very old house (1850's.) The bottom simply reads "Mankato Minn." --not far from us in Iowa. On the side, under the Coca Cola label, it says "Trademark Registered" and "Min. Content 6 Fl. Ozs." Toward the bottom on one side is written "27 (then an oval like symbol) 51"
Height: 7.5" Weight: 14 ozs.
Thanks for looking at this.
Pardon my problem with rotating photos.
The symbol you have described:
[27] <(I)> 51.
Making sense of it:
Plant-number (I think 27 or 21 was Streator, Ill.) Owen-Illinois mark. Year.
So, your bottle's mould was made in 1951, meaning that the bottle was made in '51 or '52.
I remember as a boy we would walk to a pond called,.. flax pond and just a across the pond was a coke plant ...me and my budies all of a age of 8 to 9 would shoot over to the side of the plant were they had windows ...and open ones ...lol we would watch the bottles load up on the Conveyors being wash ,then filled , then caped .. then we would start our crap to get the guy to pass us a free coke, the small ones like yours ,... they didnt want close the windows, so to get rid of us they cough up 3 cokes and would say get the hell out of here and dont come back ...was a good time life and just part of summer we always like ...about 1960.... thanks for the flash back...
Thanks, SpiritBear. That was very knowledgeable and helpful. Must be the same age as my old City water meter that blew out and flooded the basement. The bottle was laying right next to it. being kept as a souvenier.
Windwalker, Fun story. My similar flashback to about 1960, same age: going to neighbors houses in the summer and saying trick or treat and actually pulling off some candy if we'd go away.