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Saturday, May 25, 2024

Two Sizes Canada Dry Embossed bottles.

 

Large Canada Dry Bottle Showing CANADA DRY twice on shoulder
and CANADA DRY BOTTLING CO of FLORIDA INC and CONTENTS 1 PINT 12 FLUID OZ around the heal.


Below is the big bottle shown above along with a similar smaller bottle labeled CANADA DRY on the shoulder.

Pint CANADA DRY bottle (left)
along with smaller CANADA DRY bottle

The entire surface of both bottles is textured, which doesn't show well.


Smaller Bottle without embossing on heal.

The smaller bottle,unlike the pint size bottle, does have a makers mark on the bottom.


Bottom of smaller CANADA DRY bottle.

The maker's mark indicates CANADA DRY, also Consumers Glass Co.  

Here are two good links.  One is on Canada Dry and the second is on the Canada Dry bottling works in Silver Springs.

HISTORY OF BEVERAGE: History of Canada Dry (beveragehistory.com)

Vol48No2_MCStory.pdf (montgomeryhistory.org)


I have not yet dated these embossed bottles, which show no evidence of ACL or paper labeling.


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