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| C. C. Soda Bottle, Pat'd Nov. 6, 1923 |
Here is a Coca Cola Soda Water bottle that I picked up while on a little walk yesterday. Years ago I found a similar bottle, but in green glass. This one is embossed Coca Cola Bottling Company and Pat'd Nov 6, 23, and also L.G.W.
L.G.W. indicates the bottle was made by the Laurens Glass Works in South Carolina. It could have been bottled by the Fort Pierce Bottling Company, but it could have also been bottled elsewhere. Bottles from around the country are found on the Treasure Coast. This one doesn't indicate where it was bottled, but I have found a good number of bottles that were bottled in Fort Pierce.
Here is a paragraph from a great article on the Laurens Glass Works.
Laurens made Coca-Cola bottles, probably as early as 1917, and, by 1919, the Coca-Cola trade was the firm’s most important business. The plant also made bottles for Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, and numerous smaller bottlers. Specializing in soft drink bottles, the company grew so much that it opened a second plant in Henderson, North Carolina, in 1959, followed by a factory in Ruston, Louisiana, “a few years later” (Hamer 2002:18; 2003:25-33). The Henderson plant made bottles for “soft drinks, processed foods and household chemicals” (Glass Industry 1960:68).
Below is a link for more about that.
https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/LaurensGW.pdf
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Joe D. visited a lot o the Treasure Coast beaches and sent in this report.
I was unimpressed with beach conditions today! Hunted Turtle trail on outgoing tide this morning and found only a few pieces of aluminum! Went half mile each direction! Drove to Bonsteel, Amber Sands, Golden Sands, Wabasso, The Wall, Rio Mar! Did not hunt any of them! Just pics!
Only other place i hunted was South Beach Park only because it had better conditions than any others! Found a few green coins and some iron! Finished out low tide there! Drove by Ft Pierce jetty park, many kite surfers, but did not hunt! Than to John Brooks, Fredrick Douglass, and Walton Rocks for a peak, before heading home! No pics sent this time (unless you want them) due to poor conditions! Saw at least 4 detecting Turtle Trail, and a few others at various stops! But no one was digging that i could see! Oh well, another day soon! And loved the weather, other than the sandblasting! Haha!
Joe D.
Thanks much Joe.
I visited a couple beaches yesterday. You can see them below.
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| John Brooks Yesterday. |
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| Walton Rocks Yesterday. |
Near low tide there was a pretty good north to south current running near shore. That was the most interesting thing I saw at the beach.
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It is time to consign or the next Sedwick auction. Here is their notice.
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If you didn't go out in the early morning cool air to see the lunar eclipse you can catch it on YouTube.
There was a really big negative tide this morning. The surf is three to five feet.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
