How to age glass coca cola bottles
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.
Can anyone help me with the proper way to read these codes?
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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-105529 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 1915 but my research points out that Pat d bottles were not made in 1915, but I could be wrong about that, that's why I am asking. The L I'm assuming is a glass manufacturer mark. But I'm not 100% sure.
can anyone help me with the date? Am I correct in my thought this is a PAT D bottle from 1915?
Picture are the bottle I am talking about. It's kind of hard to see the raised glass in the picture but the best I can take.
Any help is appreciated!
This is the article that you want to see:
https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/coca-cola.pdf
As the article states (on page 13 I believe) the Patent D-xxxxxx bottles are from 1938 to 1951
https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/coca-cola.pdf
COCA-COLA ( block letters, no script)
BOTTLING CO.
MT. VERNON, OHIO
EG 24 1657
Can anyone tell me about this bottle?
TheFonz
The bottle was made in 1948 by Laurens Glass works (L=Laurens) the 2 digits to the right are the year, the digits to the left is the mold number.