Today was a yucky day so I cleaned a few bottles ...

[creskol]

One of my favorite bottles in my collection is one I found a long time ago. It is a local King Cola bottle from Lynchburg, Virginia:
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Today I was cleaning a few bottles from the Free Town Restoration Project:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...wn-restoration-project-uncleaned-bottles.html
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and got a nice surprise! Another local King Kola bottle from Weyers Cave, Virginia. This one is a bit older that the other, but other than a few scuff marks, its in great shape!.[/size][/b] -
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Here the two are side-by-side:
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[fongu]

Nice bottles. They look shorter in these photos.

 

[creskol]

Nice bottles. They look shorter in these photos.

Yeah .. seems like T-Net and Photo Bucket don't communicate very well..if you click on the images, they will self correct.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Those look really nice! More goodies for your collection! HH! Before the ground freezes.

 

[creskol]

Those look really nice! More goodies for your collection! HH! Before the ground freezes.

Thanks! I love bottles with local connections.

 

[surf]

Hey creskol,

I can see why that Lynchburg King Cola with the vertical script embossing is your favorite. I do believe the Lynchburg is far and away the prettiest of all the King Colas.

The Lynchburg King Cola Bottling Co. was chartered in 1916, and the Weyers Cave in 1917. I do believe the Lynchburg to be the older of the two. Is there any maker or date codes?

King Cola was a casualty of the Cola Wars of the Teens and Twenties waged by Coca-Cola and it's battalion of lawyers.

"The Virginia Beverage Corporation was incorporated on October 28, 1915 in Roanoke, VA(1), it is thought that the company actually started out in nearby Salem, VA and moved to Roanoke; however, the only evidence of this that I have found are paper labels and a bottle with Salem, VA on them. Yet the State Corporation Commission of Virginia says Roanoke, VA is where they were incorporated so I’m going with that. The main product of the company was a brand called King Cola…

As you can see the brand seemed to be doing well, and they tried to register the name as a trademark which caught the attention of the Coca-Cola Company who was on a virtual witch hunt at the time trying to quash any brand that dared imitate it including the use of the term cola which is what they came after King Cola with. They succeeded with a judgment handed down by the Commissioner of Patents for the United States Patent Office on January 13, 1917, that the Virginia Beverage Corporation was not entitled to register the King Cola mark for which it had made application.

This did not kill the brand outright. It even picked up more bottlers after this ruling. They couldn’t register the trademark, but they obviously weren’t going to allow this to stop them producing the brand. They also created a new brand in the form of Dixie Flip. Of course eventually the brand disappeared with the last mention I found to be in the first half of the 1920’s…" King Cola The Royal Drink By Joseph T. Lee III

If you're feeling extra generous, I'd love to see natural light photos of both. Closeups of the lips and bases, too, please. I know the guys in the bottle basement would love to see these, also. (Hint, hint.)

King Cola | Antique Bottles Forum​

 

[Spaceport]

Very cool.....great picture with the side by side.

 

[creskol]

Hey creskol,

I can see why that Lynchburg King Cola with the vertical script embossing is your favorite. I do believe the Lynchburg is far and away the prettiest of all the King Colas.

The Lynchburg King Cola Bottling Co. was chartered in 1916, and the Weyers Cave in 1917. I do believe the Lynchburg to be the older of the two. Is there any maker or date codes?

King Cola was a casualty of the Cola Wars of the Teens and Twenties waged by Coca-Cola and it's battalion of lawyers.

"The Virginia Beverage Corporation was incorporated on October 28, 1915 in Roanoke, VA(1), it is thought that the company actually started out in nearby Salem, VA and moved to Roanoke; however, the only evidence of this that I have found are paper labels and a bottle with Salem, VA on them. Yet the State Corporation Commission of Virginia says Roanoke, VA is where they were incorporated so I’m going with that. The main product of the company was a brand called King Cola…

As you can see the brand seemed to be doing well, and they tried to register the name as a trademark which caught the attention of the Coca-Cola Company who was on a virtual witch hunt at the time trying to quash any brand that dared imitate it including the use of the term cola which is what they came after King Cola with. They succeeded with a judgment handed down by the Commissioner of Patents for the United States Patent Office on January 13, 1917, that the Virginia Beverage Corporation was not entitled to register the King Cola mark for which it had made application.

This did not kill the brand outright. It even picked up more bottlers after this ruling. They couldn’t register the trademark, but they obviously weren’t going to allow this to stop them producing the brand. They also created a new brand in the form of Dixie Flip. Of course eventually the brand disappeared with the last mention I found to be in the first half of the 1920’s…" King Cola The Royal Drink By Joseph T. Lee III

If you're feeling extra generous, I'd love to see natural light photos of both. Closeups of the lips and bases, too, please. I know the guys in the bottle basement would love to see these, also. (Hint, hint.)

King Cola | Antique Bottles Forum​

That's some great history right there! Thanks! I will try to get some photos in the morning light and post them here.

 

[creskol]

That's some great history right there! Thanks! I will try to get some photos in the morning light and post them here.

Here are a few more pics:

 

[VOL1266-X]

Professional job Rob!! Do you do dishes?-LOL. HH, Q.