Vernors Ginger Ale 150th B-Day

[SODABOB]

Take your pick ...

• C.G.Co…………….This mark was evidently used by four (or more) different glass companies. Most bottles with this mark along the lower heel are believed to be products of the Coshocton Glass Company, Coshocton, OH (1902-1923), a prolific manufacturer of beer & soda bottles distributed widely but especially throughout the midwest. Other possibilities include Canton Glass Company, Canton, OH (1883-1890) & Marion, Indiana (1890-1958) [See Canton]; and Cohansey Glass Manufacturing Company, Bridgeton, NJ (c.1870-1900). ALSO, please see the two following entries!
• C.G.Co…………….California Glass Company, California, Pennsylvania (c.1890s). Harvey Teal, a researcher and historian on South Carolina history, (author of a published book on the SC Dispensary flasks) reports that he has documents proving that some of the dispensary flasks dating from the c.1893-1897 period marked “C.G.CO.” were definitely made by California Glass, although Phillip Kenneth Huggins (The South Carolina Dispensary-1997), attributed the marking to the Carolina Glass Company, Columbia, SC (1902-1913). Apparently, both glass companies made the dispensary bottles AND used a C.G.CO. mark for a time on them.
• C.G.Co.(on “POLAR BEAR” pattern glass bread tray) …………..believed to be Crystal Glass Company, Bridgeport, Ohio (1883-1907). This particular Crystal Glass Company was started in c.1868 at Pittsburgh, and later moved to Bridgeport. The C.G.Co. initials which are known on the bread tray from approximately 1885 (and may be on other items in the “Polar Bear” pattern as well) were attributed to Crystal Glass Co. by Ruth Webb Lee in her groundbreaking reference work “Early American Pressed Glass” (1931 and later editions) from a personal conversation she had with an elderly knowledgable Pittsburgh-area glassblower. Crystal Glass Company made mostly pressed glass tableware items (usually classed under “Early American Pattern Glass”, known to collectors as simply EAPG) and was not a producer of blown commercial containers, so this mark is virtually certain to be UNRELATED to the “C.G.Co.” seen commonly on beer bottles.

 

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My initial pick is ...

Most bottles with this mark along the lower heel are believed to be products of the Coshocton Glass Company, Coshocton, OH (1902-1923), a prolific manufacturer of beer & soda bottles distributed widely but especially throughout the midwest.

 

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Keith

I'm a little confused - Does the bottle with C.G. CO. on the heel have Vernor's on the base? And if it does, can you please post a picture of the entire bottle and explain again about the mold seam on the side.

Thanks

 

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History of the Coshocton Glass Company w/pictures of heel marks ...

https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/CoshoctonGlass.pdf

C.G. CO. mark




Keith's bottle

 

[VernorsGuy]

Attached are photos all of the same bottle. It's the one with the code. It has no label left on it. It's hard to take photos of the seam disappearing. It looks like it stops about 3/4 inch before the bottom lip of the top. Much easier to see in person, tough through a phone camera!

 

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Kieth

Mucho Gracias'

This is from the Coshocton Glass Company history I posted a link to. Notice what it says about the C.G.CO. marks that have double digit numbers associated with them. Which means your bottle could have been made by the Cohansey Glass Company and not Coshocton Glass ...

( Your Vernor's bottle has a double-digit 14 - 3 )

Our study of the C.G.CO. logo (see the Cohansey Glass Co.section) concluded that both the Cohansey Glass Co. and theCoshocton Glass Co. made beer and soda bottles embossed with theC.G.CO. mark. Typically, however, most of the bottles with theCohansey logos were used by breweries and bottlers in or nearPhiladelphia. The vast majority of bottles marked “C.G.CO.” usedin the Southern states and elsewhere were made by the CohanseyGlass Co. The “C.G.CO.” logos fell into four patterns:

1. C.G.CO. on the heel with no accompanying numbers
2. C.G.CO. on the heel, followed by a two- or three-digit number
3. C.G.CO. on the heel (usually reverse heel) with a three-digit number on the base
4. C.G.CO., followed by a two- or three-digit number (or no number), all on the baseBottles with heel logos followed by numbers (#2 in the above list) were apparently onlymade by the Cohansey Glass Co. (Figure 1).

The remaining bottles – with CGCO heelmarks andno numbers; heelmarks and base codes; or basemarks of all kinds (with or without numbers) –were made by the Coshocton Glass Co. (Figures 2 & 3). Apparently, only Coshoctonmanufactured Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola bottles. As noted above, our full study was reported inthe Cohansey Glass Co. section.

 

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And here's the link to the Cohansey Glass Company history. Which is very detailed and will require some close reading to make sense of it ...

( I have only scrolled through it so far )

http://www.sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/Cohansey.pdf

 

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This is from the Cohansey Glass Company history link ...


Patterns:

It is thus clear that both soda and beer bottle logos fall into the same fourconfigurations:

1. C.G.CO., with no accompanying numbers

2. C.G.CO., followed by a two- or three-digit number

3. C.G.CO. on the heel (usually back) with a three-digit number on the base

4. C.G.CO., followed by a two- or three-digit number (or no number), all on the base

"We have only discovered three glass houses that fit all four characteristics:"

Carolina Glass Co. (1902-1910)

Cohansey Glass Co. (1900-1909)

Coshocton Glass Co. (1902-ca. 1915)

Footnote:

If Keith's bottle was made by one of these companies, then we have a date range between 1900 and 1915. (Coshocton Glass didn't start using bottle machines until about 1915)

 

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P.S.

If Keith's bottle was made by the Cohansey Glass Co. (1900-1909), then determining when (if ever) they started using bottle machines should help narrow the date down even more.

 

[hemihampton]

More info on tooled top crown top. Click link below & scroll down. LEON.


https://sha.org/bottle/finishes.htm#Molded & Tooled finish