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Can anyone date this bottle?
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I will,if it buys me dinner first..
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Most likely a WW2 bottle as later product is in cans.
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The reason everyone says WW2 when a bottle is put up is because the government put a restriction on using tin for cans, during the duration.
But what most people don't know is that this same restriction on the use of cans was imposed by the government during the Korean War. I don't have the exact dates, but it would probably be somewhere between 1950 and 1954.
So, this bottle might also be from that period.
Jack Sim
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Korean War June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953
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Dick, you are absolutely correct about the Korean War. The fighting started in June, 1950, and ended on July 27, 1953 (thirty days after I gradutated from High school.
But according to the military records and the American Legion records, all military that joined or were drafteed into the military before February 1,1958 were considerd Korean War Veterans. This is the group I fall in. Even though I graduated from HS before the war ended, I did not enter the U.S.Army until Jan. 10, 1958 making me elegible for the GI Bill, and declared me a Korean Veteren. I served 3 1/2 years in the U.S. Army, three years at Ft. Leonard Wood.
While this has nothing to do with the embargo on the use of tin for cans, it does set a period of time that there was an embargo. Embargos were not dropped the day the war ended.
I would also like to report that the U.S. Army did not seem fit to send me to Korea at that time. I was sent to Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri where I spend almost 3 1/2 years defending Ft. Wood against a Korean invasion. I also wish to report that while I was stationed there no one Korean soldier was above to cross the Kansas border into Missouri during my guard.
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One little addition to my story. While stationed at Ft. Wood, MO, I married a girl who lived 30 miles south of Ft. Wood. She was a former U.S. Army Nurse who actually served in Korea during rhe war. I used to make trips to her family home in Eminancee, MO. The roads had yet to be paved, there was phone service, but electric had not yet reached the area. Just up the road was a general store with a visible pump. I am proud to say that I pulled in one day and had my 1953 Ford filled with gasoline from the visible pump. The general store closed and my wife's brother purchased the property, but I was never able to find out what happened to that visible pump. I walked all of the fields around the property looking for it, but it was gone. From that day, I wanted a visible pump. I knew I would be restoring an old car soon, but I still wanted a visible pump to put next to it.
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LOOK ON THE BOTTOM. "IF" THERE IS A TWO DIGIT NUMBER LIKE 47 IT WOULD BE 1947, OR 53 = 1953, A.S.O.
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Thanks DB and Jack for that history lesson, you guys are a wealth of information.
Doc, No such numbers were found, I scoured it pretty good.
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