Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2011.071.007 |
Object Name |
Bottle, Drinking |
Other Name |
Bottle, Pop |
Title |
QUENCH "King Size" Pop Bottle (1956 Pattern) |
Lexicon category |
5: T&E For Science & Technology |
Date |
Likely 1959 |
Year Range from |
1959 |
Year Range to |
1960 |
Artist |
Consumers Glass |
Made |
Consumers Glass |
Place of Origin |
Canada |
Description |
Colourless glass soda bottle. The middle has a moulded, crackled texture, vertical ridging and white printing. The printing reads: "Quench / MEANS QUALITY" in script-style and block lettering, and "KING SIZE" in outlined letters. "TRADE MARK REGISTERED" is emboss-moulded twice. Emboss-moulded at the bottom is "WM. TAYLOR & SON LTD. / OWEN SOUND ONT." and "CONTENTS 10 FL. OZ.". The underside has a Consumers glass factory mark, and the pattern was registered in 1956. The date code on the underside is likely "1959." |
Makers mark |
The underside has a Consumers glass factory mark, and the pattern was registered in 1956. The underside is emboss-moulded with "WM. TAYLOR & SON LTD.", and has the inverted triangle surrounding a "C" mark that is Consumers Glass. There is a "2" above the "C" mark, a dot to the upper left, a three-sided code mark to the left, and a "9" to the right. "4984" below is likely the mould number. "R. D. 1956" means that the glass pattern was registered in 1956. |
Provenance |
Manufactured by Consumers Glass, whose factory was opened in 1917. They shipped their products to Owen Sound, Grey County by rail in the 1950s. Likely dates to 1959. Belonged to William Taylor and Son Limited, which was established in Owen Sound circa 1916. The 1922 Vernon's Directory of Owen Sound listed the company at 957, 4th Avenue East. It manufactured carbonated beverages. It was still at the same location circa 1966, but by then was known as "Taylor's Soft Drinks". W. Humphrey Taylor was the second "Son" of the firm's name (his brother Chris was the first, but died the same year as William Taylor). The company was the second in Owen Sound to work for Coca Cola. It closed in 1971. Last owned by Brian Rice of Sauble Beach, Bruce County. |
Collection |
Bottles & Equipment, 20th-c Collection |
Material |
Glass/Ink, white |
Dimensions |
H-24.5 Dia-6.3 cm |
Found |
Sauble Beach, Bruce County |
People |
Taylor, William Humphrey |
Subjects |
Owen Sound Industry Owen Sound Industries Bottling Companies 1950s Bottles Soda industry Beverage industry Beverages |
Search Terms |
William Taylor & Son Limited Owen Sound Industries and Products |
Function |
Contained a QUENCH-brand soda. This was a re-usable carbonated beverage bottle. The Quench product (originally known as Orange Quench, had an orange flavour) was bottled in Owen Sound, Ontario in the 1930s+ by the Wm. Taylor & Son Ltd. bottling company. After it was filled with the Quench beverage, it would have had a metal cap applied to the top to seal it. This type of bottle required a bottle opener to remove the cap. Retailers had pop coolers that had in-built bottle openers so that you could open up your pop before you left the store. |