After further research...

Okay, I know I promised not to e-mail anything else about my bottle (at least I promised that to my family), but I am pretty sure I figured out the date of my bottle, and since it was slightly difficult to come by, I thought I'd share it with you all.

I've been e-mailing Chris Weide, my bottle collecting expert, about information about my bottle. He said the date should be on the bottom of the bottle. Well, there isn't a date on the bottom. There is, however, a G with a square around it (as well as a 700 and a 25). He e-mailed back and said that my bottle, then, is dated "in code". G with a square around it is a specific glass company in PA (sorry, S, not made in Cincinnati, really. Probably bottled here, though), and they put a tiny letter below the lip of the bottle that would tell us the date. Chris said they were very difficult to see, and that's apparently even after you KNOW what you're looking for. R stands for 1946. S is 1947. T is 1948, and so on.

So Rob and I examined and re-examined the bottle for both the letter and the number (there's a number, but it's not related to the date, apparently (according to Chris)). We are now fairly confident that it's an R. On the exact opposite side is obviously some number, but we can't really make that one out, it's pretty worn down. Rob thought it might be an 8. I thought it might be a 4 or a 7 (and then we joked about how it really could be just about any number). However, since it's the letter that has the date, we at least have the answer to that: 1946. And this house, I looked it up, was built in 1947 (I think the last owners moved in in 1954, that's where I got that date from). So this house is as old as Dad. Ancient!! Just kidding. But 1947 for the completion of the house would put the bottle just perfect for 1946. So there you have it. My bottle is 59 years old.

Tamra

Check out this beauty!

This has been a fun little thing to find. Rob, while installing our fence, unearthed some "barried treasure" (said in his best pirate voice): a bottle of Cheer Up. I, of course, had NO IDEA what Cheer Up was but thought the bottle was cool. We've gotten most of the cement off, but some of it is still on. And, since the bottle has been underground for, oh, say 50 years, it's still pretty dirty and banged up. Believe it or not, there are people who collect old bottles like this. I have e-mailed a guy who has one of the largest soda bottle collections in the world to see if he can help me track down more information on this bottle of mine. Cause I think it's one of the coolest things ever. So I thought I'd send you a picture of it. Enjoy!

Tamra