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Found this under a 50+ year old tree stump I'm digging up, was lodged into hard clay next to the tap root. A quick google search show bottles alike but not much on this particular one. I'm
Thinking 1970ish? I believe wishing well was a mainly Canadian soda/pop
I agree it looks like a returnable soda bottle from the 70's. It was worth 5 cents then. Never saw the brand though.
still only worth 5 cents. dang. youd think 50 yrs would gain some interest.
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Never saw the brand up here in NB. There was a scheme one time where you returned pop bottles for refills. The Pop Shoppe I believe. Bottles looked like round beer bottle stubbies. They are only in Ontario now I think. They disappeared around here in the 80's due to poor sales. It was expensive pop compared to a Coke or Sussex ginger ale.
It's also only in OZ no ML, Canada moved to metric 1975 , so it would of indicated ml or at least both after that date
Quote from: mike_belben on May 24, 2021, 03:31:58 PM
still only worth 5 cents. dang. youd think 50 yrs would gain some interest.
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Sort of. At a bottle depot. Apparently people will pay 20-40$(cad) for these guys. I’m keeping mine. On a shelf it goes. ;D
It’s tough glass I gave it a good jab with a shovel before I realized it wasn’t clay :D . Quality for sure
Before plastic took over those returnable bottles took a beating. A pretty large section of the bottling plants was the washing area. Streator IL was the capitol of glass bottle making, we built a couple of houses there. It shrank dramatically when the throw aways came in. Bottles were 2 cents when I was a kid. It was about a mile to the country store that had drinks, candy and worms. We kept the ditches cleared on the way to the store.
I did some googling around and that bottle may be earlier, possibly 60's or before. I found pricing on similar bottles in good clear condition ranging from 3.95 (US) to 50 bucks.
DO some research before you decide. I see some of the caps from those can bring more than the bottle.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on May 24, 2021, 04:46:04 PM
Never saw the brand up here in NB. There was a scheme one time where you returned pop bottles for refills. The Pop Shoppe I believe. Bottles looked like round beer bottle stubbies. They are only in Ontario now I think. They disappeared around here in the 80's due to poor sales. It was expensive pop compared to a Coke or Sussex ginger ale.
The Pop Shoppe was based in London Ont. Their pop was cheaper than the name brands and had great flavours that you could mix and match in the red plastic crates they were sold in. The company suffered when cheap no name pop in cans started flooding the market in the 80's. The brand was ressurrected about 10 years ago in Mississauga as a premium brand. The new company worked hard to recreate the unique original flavours. Brings back a lot of great memories.
I have never seen that brand but the glass return bottles in the lift the lid and slide the bottle along the rails were in the sixty's and early seventy's in my area. We had a local Pepsi bottler so that was the main brand in my area. I think my folks went to cans and fountain pop in the mid seventy's in there truck stop, filling station. Seeing that bottle brings back good memory's of the good old days.
All this talk of cream soda had me craving one. Pop shoppe!
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Back in 1984 we toured the local Pepsi bottler as a grade school class, it was then still at least 50% glass bottles for the product sales. It was definitely tough glass, as they would stack the cases of bottles on top of each other, at least 20' high in the warehouse. Also to think how many times they were filled, sold, drank, returned, cleaned, refilled, resold, drank... etc. :o
Quote from: Don P on May 24, 2021, 05:52:04 PM
Before plastic took over those returnable bottles took a beating. A pretty large section of the bottling plants was the washing area. Streator IL was the capitol of glass bottle making, we built a couple of houses there. It shrank dramatically when the throw aways came in. Bottles were 2 cents when I was a kid. It was about a mile to the country store that had drinks, candy and worms. We kept the ditches cleared on the way to the store.
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It's a shame that I can only like yours and theirs once, but it's freakin hilarious (and true) ! ! ! !
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Quote from: Don P on May 24, 2021, 05:52:04 PM
Before plastic took over those returnable bottles took a beating. A pretty large section of the bottling plants was the washing area. Streator IL was the capitol of glass bottle making, we built a couple of houses there. It shrank dramatically when the throw aways came in. Bottles were 2 cents when I was a kid. It was about a mile to the country store that had drinks, candy and worms. We kept the ditches cleared on the way to the store.
:D :D
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Hilarious and true.
If someone would reintroduce returnable beer bottles the home brewers would immediately snap them up. Those old bottles were great. Especially the heavy cardboard case.
that is a stylish bottle. When I remolded my old house in Hays, we found lots of beer cans in the walls. they were opend with a can opener that made the triangle hole. would have rather had insulation. When I asked the older (80s) German lady what her deceased husband did, she said "anything he wanted and not a DanG thing else"! They used to rent to college kids, but she said with a strong German accent, " when they started shooting guns down there, that was it, and we kicked em out". she also said the reason she was selling, was to get her grandson and his kids out of the basement. On many a Sunday, along would come a big car going slow. It would be this lady, getting a ride home from church who came out to see what had been done to the house. she would always ask if she could have a drink of the good ol well water. she was a peach.
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Finding that bottle sparked a new addiction... lol i mean I had cream soda and cane sugar pop before but I've been grabbing one from the store every few days now. They are sure refreshing after a long day.
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How about this bottle ?
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The original 3 Centa.
Nice, Did you find that ?
I found a pretty thorough write-up on that bottle HERE (http://www.antiquebottles.com/3centa/). It seems the clear is more rare than the colored, and the 5 centas are even more rare. I found one like yours on ebay for $57. plus shipping. Nice find.
Yes, I found it. Working on one of my projects this morning. My house was built in 1906. Back in the day, they just dug a hole, or not , for a place to put trash. I have found several bottles since we've lived here, most were liquor bottles.😂 A few soda bottles. I would have to say this is the oldest one I found so far. I'm sure the older stuff is deeper buried. Thanks for the link OG, I assumed Augusta Georgia, that would make sense. I looked on the bottle and there's no city name.
In the northeast at least, when you are driving on a country 2 lane road and you see where the old road used to be, that is the place to walk for old bottles and old dumps.
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How about this bottle , I believe it's before my time.
I found it cleaning up some more storm damage today.
Clorox has a website page dedicated to identifying bottles:
https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/company/our-story/bottle-guide/
Now THAT'S a cool bottle and looks to be in prefect shape. I haven't seen one of those since I was a little kid. My grandfather had one in his shop he kept Kerosene in. But even in the early 60's that was an old bottle.
Thanks Resonater, I thought it was cool too, Tom.
The back yard here was full of glass anything years ago. Although I can say I never found any booze bottles. The neighboring farmer, you could walk his fence every spring and fall and collect a kitchen table full of glass beer bottles. We used to get 2 cents, then it went to 5 cents a bottle for redemption. The big long necked quart beer bottles were 10 cents. I think they were a Quebec bottle. Back then there was no bottle depot like now. It was just guys buying them out of their garages and I think they went to Ontario by the tractor trailer loads. Boxed in original beer boxes. Last I talked with an antique dealer about glass was 8 years ago. He said antique glass isn't worth much in this region. I said I know for a fact my great grandmother's black carnival glass pitcher and cups is US $1000. Seen the exact thing on Antique Road Show. He said no one will pay that around here. So glass is worth more to some than others. :D
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It says 1-7-11-14 on the bottom and 1-11-14 on the side at the bottom, surely that's not date ? Anyone know ?
Nope, but I remember when a local farmer peddled his own milk in them bottles. Had a paper cap/tab. :thumbsup:
I can remember in elementary school (1950s) milk came in little bottles, both white and chocolate. School lunch cost one dollar for a five day week. Those bottles were thick and heavy and used over and over again. Back then you didn't throw things away, you used them again and again. Things were made to last!
In the late 1960s in Lynchburg, Va, my mom had twice a week dairy deliveries. We got milk in glass quart bottles, cheese, eggs, sour cream etc left in a little insulated tin box just outside our back door step. The tin cooler box had the dairy name in the outside. If there was a logo on the bottles I don't recall I never saw the delivery guy, seems he made his rounds very early in the mornings.
The milk bottles were recycled by leaving the empties in the little tin cooler. The milk bottles were round like those pictured. For a time they had a waxed heavy paper lid pressed on the top. Latter they switched to a metal lid and new bottles that were rectangular ish.
I remember we could get plastic lids for the bottles at the store. They had a ring that hooked to the neck of the bottle and the top sealed the bottle shut. Didn't come from the dairy that way, something we used after it was open. Heck I remember still having one of those into the 90's and a bottle or two kicking around. And yeah, they were square bodied. I remember the local COOP creamery came around with cream cans. They only made butter to sell direct, never sold the milk direct, perhaps to a bigger processor. That was still going on here until about 2000. They catered to the small 20 cow dairy farmer. The big boys sent their milk to big processors in bulk tanks. No local dairy farmers here anymore. The last one quit about 4 years ago. Still a handful of big dairy farmers around but slowly dwindling away. I don't see any at all now in eastern Maine, nothing. In fact a lot of them looked like they walked off the place and left the door swinging. Down through Island Falls and Houlton area, now Amish own a lot of that land and none grow anything more than a small garden, no bigger than mine.