🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Help with an old bottle

[fyrffytr1]

I found this bottle at an automotive swap meet today and bought it just because of the logo on it. It reads: "National Dope Co./ Birmingham Ala." Across the bottom reads: "This bottle must be returned". Has anyone heard of the National Dope Co.?
I also posted this in the bottle forum here.

 

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[crashbandicoot]

I found this bottle at an automotive swap meet today and bought it just because of the logo on it. It reads: "National Dope Co./ Birmingham Ala." Across the bottom reads: "This bottle must be returned". Has anyone heard of the National Dope Co.?
I also posted this in the bottle forum here.

I haven,t searched it fyrffytr1,but they once called the stuff they used on old fabric covered airplanes"dope",I believe it was some kind of Nitrate,but I,m not sure. Also "pipe dope" was a common term for thread sealer plumbers used. Just a couple things popped in my head.

 

[Ocean7]

National Dope Company - Bhamwiki

www.bhamwiki.com

soda bottle - I see similar sold on E-bay for $92.00

NATIONAL DOPE CO. tall HUTCHINSON Soda Bottle BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA ALA 1800's | eBay

FEATURED: NATIONAL DOPE CO. tall HUTCHINSON Soda Bottle BIRMINGHAM, ALA! GREEN colored. Stands about 7 ⅞” tall. STRONGLY EMBOSSED: NATIONAL / DOPE CO. / BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Heel has: D.O.C. 69. Has remnant of the Original WIRE STOPPER at the bottom of the Bottle.

www.ebay.com

 

[Older The Better]

Could you show the bottom?

 

[AlabamaRelic]

Birmingham's National Dope Company & Other Early Soft Drink Bottlers

alabamayesterdays.blogspot.com

 

[dozer dan]

The National Dope Company produced and bottled soft drinks in Birmingham from 1909 to 1911. “Dope” was a slang term for carbonated soft drinks with cola syrup that seems to have been used primarily in the southern U.S. into the 1950s.

 

[ivan salis]

yjere was once a term they used called "doping it out" meaning to find or figger out something