The purpose of this site is to provide useful information for collectors, researchers, and novices on pre-crown soda and beer bottles. It's not that we have anything against crown top bottles or their collectors, it's just that the scope of these bottles is too great to include in this work. The focus is on bottles from the Western Hemisphere. However, many of these bottles can be found world wide.
Pre-crown bottles, which are often called blob tops by collectors, span over 100 years of use. In the United States, the earliest marked and documented bottles date to the late 1820s and some forms were used until about 1920. In other parts of the world, marked beer and soda bottles were being used by 1810 and pre-crown bottles were used well into the Twentieth Century. I recently brought and drank from a Japanese Codd bottle! Unmarked examples were used before marked examples and crown top bottles after this bottle form was abandoned.
This site is packed with information, so step inside. If you cannot find an answer, e-mail us your questions on your old pre-crown soda or beer bottle and we will do our best to answer them.
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