Beyonder123
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I bought these for $1 each at an antique store. Does anyone know if these are real or reproductions?
The old ones are embossed. Yours are new.
So 60's, 70's, 80's?
Looks like 80s to me.
They are real. They are also 1960s era. The fact that they have the wear band around the sides shows that they are deposit bottles and have been returned, cleaned and filled many times by the Coca-Cola bottlers. They started these ACL (painted logo) bottles about 1959-60. Before that they were embossed (1916-1959). The easiest way to tell the new ones are that most of 'em were No Deposit-No Return, thinner, lighter weight glass, have concave bottoms and many have those barcodes on them. And, yes, many new ones have cities on the bottoms for nostalgia's sake. That carton says Coke Classic so it's from the mid-80s at least.
In the early eighties I would pick out 7up bottles with the bathing suit lady
on it from a six pack because they are collectable oldies.