7-Up Green Glass Bottle - [Liberty Glass Co.]

Here's a 7-Up soda bottle I picked up this morning at an old abandoned farmstead.  It's not terribly old, rare, or special, but I liked how it looked, so now it's home with me.

It's a 10 ounce bottle, around 9.5" tall, 2.25" wide (at its base), and the label is an applied color label--a sure sign that it was made after the 1930s.  This bottle is quite heavy, and noticeably so.  Without a scale handy, I'd say it's at least 1 lb.

The label design is also newer--the older 7-Up bottle logos featured something similar to the square "7up" label on the shoulder of this bottle (see several examples here) and were seen on bottles until 1969 when 7-Up changed its logo design to the one shown on this bottle.

Embossed on the base is the text: "LG" "69" / "909" "24".  Though "LG" could belong to a number of different glass bottle manufacturers (Graham Glass Co., Lindell Glass Co., Lyndeborough Glass Co., etc.), I believe that this bottle was manufactured by Liberty Glass Company in Liberty, Oklahoma, as the other companies usually had a letter, a dash, or an additional mark to identify their logo.  Thankfully, 7up, like Pepsi and Coca-Cola, required date and plant codes of their bottle manufacturers.

The number '69' directly to Liberty Glass Co's maker's mark indicates that this bottle was manufactured in 1969, which matches the year that the updated 7-Up ACL design was debuted.