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Coke Bottles - Vintage, Commemorative, & Mini's
Coke bottles have been a fascination of not only “Coke bottle” collectors but many others as well. Coke has produced an amazing array of bottles since their start in 1886 with the first known Coke bottles being the Hutchinson stoppered variety. The Hutchinson bottle was used for short time and only by a few bottling companies just after the turn of the century, only a few have survived. The Hutchinson Coke bottles were replaced by the Cown-top, straight sided Coke bottle in the early 1900s. Millions were used and each bottling company seemed to have their own version and color between 1902 - 1915. The one thing in common was they all had a paper label with the contents and the Coca-Cola trademark embossed in script lettering. The early versions of the Crown-top Coke bottles were hand-blown in molds with their necks and lips finished off by special hand-held tools making them have rough seams and irregular patterns. Machine made crown-tops begin to replace the cruder varieties of Coke bottles around 1910. Colors ranged from clear and aqua to many shades of blue, green, and amber. Even the amount of Coke in the bottles varied. Even though all the Coke bottles had the Coca-Cola script they were not uniform, some were at the top, some at the bottom, and some in the center or shoulder of the bottle. Coke bottle collectors love all the differences but they caused much confusion which led to the famous "hobbleskirt" or "Mae West" shaped Coke bottle as the standard glass container for Coke just after 1915. The first patent for the hobbleskirt bottle was issued on Nov. 16, 1915 to the Chapman Root Company of Terre Haute, Indiana. On Dec. 25, 1923 this patent was renewed, these bottles are sometimes called "Thanksgiving" or "Christmas Cokes". Many collectors favor these because the names of the cities where they were first filled appea The Syrup Coke bottles (example below) did in fact contain genuine Coca-Cola syrup obtained from the parent company in Atlanta and used at sit-down soda fountains to hand mix one's favorite 5 cent drink with carbonated water. Two other Coke bottles that were used and had the Coca-Cola logo on them were the syrup and seltzer coke bottles. Some Coke franchises also bottled and sold seltzer water to local outlets. These bottles were made in a variety of beautifully colored or clear glass siphon bottles that had acid-etched lettering or applied color labeling. The words Coca-Cola are found on them in both block and script writing styles. These were used for seltzer water only and never held Coca-Cola.  |
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