Cedar Spring Spring Water Jacksoville

[nocheins]

Picked this up today from a retired lobster fisherman who
Dredged it in Marathon FL Keys....about 7” tall.. not much of a bottle collector but seems to be amethyst color. Any thought as to age/rarity?

[keithker]

@Ctbott1

[Ctbott1]

On my phone I can’t see the top but it doesn’t look like a blob top so I’m assuming 20s-40s. That company was around in 1915 for sure according to the registry.

He purple color is from the sun and is because of the minerals in the glass; the bottle would have been clear. I can’t give any indication on value but I find that in general, SCA (sun color amethyst) bottles are easy to sell for 15-20 bucks if just a common bottle with no damage.

[nocheins]

Here’s another pic with the top.. this thing is heavy for its size and upon closer inspection has air bubbles in the glass.

[Ctbott1]

So this is a crown top soda. Without doing a bit of research on the company - crown top sodas generally date after ~1915 if they are machine made. There are earlier crowns which date from the late 1890s to about 1915 and these would have been mouth blown in a mold. You can typically see the tell tale signs of it being blown. The machine made ones were usually embossed in a slug plate like the one you have here.

Are there any other markings on the bottle at all? Since so many of these were made by just a few companies, the bases are sometimes marked and that would allow us to date the bottle.

Based on the slug plate though I would still suspect 20s-40s.

[nocheins]

Diamond with a C

[Ctbott1]

Chattanooga glass works TN. Says may have been in use from 1901-1915 so that would likely be the date range The bottle was made. They could Also reuse some bottles later

[nocheins]

Thanks for the assistance. Not educated in bottle dating, but this one just popped compared with several others I saw yesterday.