Dating coke bottles

Who Knew My Coca-Cola Addiction Could Be So Useful: Using Coke Bottles to Date Archaeological Sites

When Andy Warhol wanted a shape to represent mass culture, he drew the bottle and when Volkswagen wanted to celebrate the shape of the Beatle, they compared the car to the bottle. The product had been an increasingly popular soda fountain drink established a mere 13 years previously. Thomas and Whitehead wanted to capitalize on the popularity of the drink by bottling it to be consumed outside the four walls of a soda fountain. The bottles used in those days were simple straight-sided bottles that were typically brown or clear. These competitor bottles created confusion among consumers.

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Hello, I have some glass coca cola bottles and was wondering how do I read the date code on the side of them? The date codes follow this format on all of mine -. I have found on various websites that sometimes the first 2 numbers are the year but I'm other websites the 2nd set of numbers is the year. Hello all, so I have a question about a glass Coca cola bottle I found bit I'm running into a condurum. The bottle says PAT D and the day code says 15 L 48, according to what I know about date codes on coke bottles this should be a bottle from around but my research points out that Pat d bottles were not made in , but I could be wrong about that, that's why I am asking. The L I'm assuming is a glass manufacturer mark. Picture are the bottle I am talking about.

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Coca-Cola first bottled under contract in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Bottles used at this time are straight-sided Hutchinson bottles with a metal stopper. Amber-colored and clear straight-sided bottles with an embossed logo are used by bottlers across the U. In , a diamond shaped label is added to make the bottle stand out from competitors. Date tremendous success and growth of Coca-Cola encourages competitors to try to imitate Coke by offering bottles with slight variations on the trademarked dating and distinctive script logo. The creative brief given to Root called for a bottle that bottles be recognized bottles broken on the ground cola by touch in the dark.

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