tester soda bottle id? need help!

[donb0078]

Hi everybody, need some help with this one! I found a 5 I/2" mini soda bottle and no clue who produced it or its value. The bottom has a square with a O inside and a 3 on the left side and an 8 on the right around the bottom near the base it has a 5 on one side and on the other side it has 932
Thanks in advance Don

 

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[DCMatt]

O in a square……….Owens Bottle Company, Toledo Ohio (1911-1929), also Fairmont, WV; Clarksburg, WV, and other plant locations. Known as Owens Bottle Machine Company beginning in 1903, the name was changed to Owens Bottle Company c. 1911. The Owens Bottle Company merged with the Illinois Glass Company (headquartered in Alton, Illinois) in 1929 to form the giant Owens-Illinois Glass Company. (Julian Toulouse stated the “O in a square” mark was first used in 1911, but according to U.S. Patent & Trademark Office data, Owens claimed first use was in the year 1919!) Take your pick on which date you will accept

. Tremendous numbers of machine-made bottles of all types are found with this mark on the bottom.

DCMatt

 

[donb0078]

Thanks DC! I found that article last night. Now if the other numbers have meaning?...it would be nice to know which brand came in it LOL. Thanks for helping, DCMatt!!!!

 

[surf]

Hey Don,

An early machine made crown cap, that. 1928, made at the Fairmont, WVa., plant of Owens Bottle Co. West Virginia Association of Museums || Dating Owens Glass Bottles

What's the capacity?

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