In honor of 132 years of coca cola take a stroll down memory lane and revisit all the iconic or not so iconic coca cola designs flavors and innovations.
Glass coca cola bottles by year.
The coca cola company turns 130 years old in 2016 and in that time the company has refreshed consumers in increasingly innovative ways.
The original bottles were hutchinson bottles very different from the much later hobble skirt design of 1915 now so familiar.
Before that it had been a soda fountain item as well as a syrup being sold in bottles as a patent medicine.
The shape was supposed to distinguish it from other plastic bottles just like the first contour glass bottle back in 1915.
Coke products in familiar looking glass bottles the company currently offers coca cola diet coke coke zero coca.
This is called a cup bottom seam.
But you may have noticed the resurgence of something retro on shelves at grocery and convenience stores and on tables at restaurants.
Coca cola did their own thing and it definitely worked in their favor.
A rare coca cola glass bottle from 1915 was recently put up for auction for a minimum bid of 50 000.
Now that s a great return.
Coke bottles manufactured in certain plants started to script the trademark on both the shoulders.
However the las vegas based auction house morphy auctions currently has the bottle.
The proprietor of the bottling works was joseph a.
I assume the 44 is the year as all the other bottles cluster around that date it is a green glass bottle with just the coal cola and trade mark and no waist mark.
The coca cola company sold the first bottle of coca cola in march 1894.
Coke has a long and interesting history and was first bottled in vicksburg mississippi in 1891.
No more broken bottles.
Vintage glass coca cola bottle white lettering 6 5 fl oz size coke pop bottle 24 95 vintage 1 1 2 brass or copper coca cola bottle mini miniature lightweight w4.
And clearly it did just that making coca cola stand out from the crowd of soda competitors.
A few years later two entrepreneurs from chattanooga tennessee namely benjamin f.
Another tip to date coke bottles is above the base sides of the bottles are molded.
Bottles issued by certain plants will show symbol of coco cola on the base of the glass bottles.
From glass bottles to slushies in reusable pouches here s how coke has changed through the years.
They are extremely rare so if you have one in your home hold on to it.
According to the auction house morphy auctions some vintage coca cola bottles from the early 1910s can be worth around 100 000 150 000.