Big Ike Bottle

[fatboy1208]

I am new to this web site and was wondering if anybody here could tell me a little more about this bottle. It is from Columbus, GA and was found in a creek in Russell Co., AL. I would like to know what year it was manufactured and what was in it. It has the word "root" at the base of it. Thanks for any information.

 

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[2screwed]

Nice looking bottle. This site might help you some:

GLASS MANUFACTURERS' MARKS ON BOTTLES

 

[epackage]

I'd say 1920-30, but I have no clue as to what flavor soda it held...Bottles made by Root are collectible, here's a bit about the company...Jim

The Root Glass Company in Terre Haute, Indiana, was one of Coca-Cola's bottle suppliers. It was Earl R. Dean, Root Glass Company's bottle designer, who designed the famous contour Coca-Cola bottle. In the mid 1930s, Chapman J. Root, the company's president, sold the Root Glass Company to Owens-Illinois Glass Company. Dean went on to work in other Midwestern glass factories.

 

[jgas]

Epackage is right on. I have several SS Cokes of this make"Root"...Yours is most likely a soda of some sort. We find a lot of Root made bottles. But never ones like yours. That just may be a very nice little catch! jgas

 

[timbobwey]

that's a cool bottle. Nice shape and the design on the bottom is really neat.