Nutri Cola


Company Names, addresses, dates:1
  Nutri Cola Bottling Co of Washington, 3701 Benning Rd NE, Washington DC

Notes:
The Nutri-cola bottle shown below is unusual not just because of it's shape, but because the words "nutri cola" are de-bossed instead of embossed (that is, the letters bulge into the glass instead of out of the glass).
Nutri-cola does not appear in any Washington DC city directories. An ad in the Washington Post on 14-March-1948 offered 1/2 cent for redeeming each Nutri-cola bottle cap.
A newspaper ad in Philadelphia from Feb 14 1948 said that Nutri Cola International Corporation was a division of Booth Bottling Company, Inc.

Bottles:

nutricola_01 book # 450
This 7.5" clear crown top is machine made, and the lettering is "debossed", i.e. the letters are indented into the bottle:
de-bossed on the front: nutri-cola / nutri-cola
embossed below that: TRADE MARK REGISTERED / CONTENTS 6 FL OUNCES / DESIGN PAT PEND D-140464
de-bossed on the back: nutri-cola / nutri-cola / nutri-cola
base: E 47 / 2404 / WASHINGTON DC


1 March 15, 1948 Washington Post advertisement




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