Buried intact bottles

[relichunters]

This is my best finds for the week. Was detecting some signals at an old home site from the early 1900's. First I pulled out a metal butter dish kind of thing. Then two broken dairy bottles with the sealing lids intact. Then underneath those.....

Came two beautiful and not damaged bottles. One is Dr. Pepper and the other is Coca Cola. I know the coke is Circa 1934 when that design was first made, and the Dr. Pepper is the 10-4-2 logo but not sure the date. These were 4 - 5 inches deep. I am very surprised they remained unbroken. I guess because it was by a river and the deep was quite soft.

Also on the coke bottles bottom it says "Charlottesville VA" which is the city/state I live in and found it in. I was told they haven't labeled the bottoms of them with city and state for a long time.

 

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[creeper71]

I believe the city state stamp is where the soda was bottled... not 100% sure tho... I have a coke site saved at home that shows how to date bottles.. I'm not at home now so if no one else post that site I'll post it later tonight or tommorrow.....

 

[allen]

those are both great looking old soda bottles !!

 

[Tank69]

sweet bottles

 

[wilkere]

Nice Finds! The lingo for the coke is xmas coke due to the date of 25 Dec 1923. I believe it's a 25 dollar bottle or thereabouts. The Dr. Pepper is a hard one to find, I'm still looking for my first in that style! Congrats.