Pepsi Soda Bottle - [Obear-Nester Glass Co.]

This relatively new Pepsi bottle was found at an abandoned old farmstead in Eudora, Kansas.


From what we know about Pepsi-Cola soda bottles, it's clear that this particular bottle was manufactured after the 1950s.  The metal cap shows the "Pepsi" logo (rather than the "Pepsi-Cola" logo that was common in their bottles from 1898-1960) and it appears that there was once a paper label on the body of the bottle.  The body is cylindrical in shape, and has stippling marks on the shoulder and heel of the bottle.

The shoulder embossments state:  16 FL OZ. (1 PT.) / DISPOSE OF PROPERLY / NOT TO BE REFILLED.  Strangely, on one side, the 1 PT. embossment lacks the right parenthesis.



The base of this bottle has three rows of stippling marks along the outer circumference.  The trademark letter 'N' within a square, belonging to Obear-Nester Glass Co., is embossed in the center.  Above the mark is the text SN-550, to the right of the mark is the number 78, and below the mark is the text 3A.


Note:  A less obvious mark on the base can be seen and felt directly below the 'N in a square' mark (and above the 3A):  the letter 'G' is faintly debossed into the glass.  I don't know what that's doing there, but it's definitely there.

Due to the design of the Obear-Nester Glass Co. trademark that we can see on the base, we know that the bottle was definitely manufactured between 1915 and 1980.  And with the helpful number to its right, we can confidently date this Pepsi bottle as being manufactured in 1978.

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