Another tip to date coke bottles is above the base sides of the bottles are molded.
Old coca cola bottles by year.
The first bottling of coca cola occurred in vicksburg mississippi at the biedenharn candy company on march 12 1894.
The coca cola company sold the first bottle of coca cola in march 1894.
The original bottles were hutchinson bottles very different from the much later hobble skirt design of 1915 now so familiar.
This is called a cup bottom seam.
Why this coca cola bottle could sell for over 100 000.
Coke bottles manufactured in certain plants started to script the trademark on both the shoulders.
Some of the vintage versions are now going for over 100 000.
The proprietor of the bottling works was joseph a.
Coke has a long and interesting history and was first bottled in vicksburg mississippi in 1891.
If you saved old coca cola bottles you may be in luck.
According to the auction house morphy auctions some vintage coca cola bottles from the early 1910s can be worth around 100 000 150 000.
Anchorage alaska bottling plant 45 00.
Before that it had been a soda fountain item as well as a syrup being sold in bottles as a patent medicine.
A few years later two entrepreneurs from chattanooga tennessee namely benjamin f.