Antique Mountain Dew Green Glass Bottle Barney Ally Hartman Knoxville TN 7 oz

Description

My Inv. I N 3A - Item # Shirley
Antique AUTHENTIC Mountain Dew Green Glass Bottle.
Says "by Barney and Ally".
Marked "Hartman Beverage Company" Knoxville TN.
This is a 7 oz bottle manufactured by Anchor Hocking.
On the back it says "It'll tickle your innards"
. This bottle dates to the 1940's era when Mountain Dew was first invented. This is one of their earliest bottles and very rare to find.
Measures: approx. 8.5" tall x 2 1/8" in diameter around the bottom
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CONDITION: No chips, no cracks, no breaks. Applied Color Label (paint) has some minor signs of wear/use/age such as minor color loss here and there and some discoloring from light soiling as shown in last picture. This is not a "dug" bottle. Please see all pictures as this is part of our description of bottle and condition. 1940's era bottle was manufactured when Mountain Dew was first invented. Comes from Smoke Free Home.
NOTE: This was part of a collection from a local gentleman who recently passed. He worked on the highways a lot back in the day and would pick up bottles that were interesting to him. He brought them home and sat them up on a shelf.  They have sat there all these years. He never dug a bottle. Keep an eye on our eBay store, we have more bottles to come in the future.
A LITTLE FUN HISTORY ABOUT THIS BOTTLE AND IT'S ORIGIN.
Early 40's - Brothers Barney and Ally Hartman, who own Hartman Beverage, begin bottling a lithiated-lemon drink to be mixed with hard liquor. It is dubbed "Mountain Dew," a term originally used for Tennessee mountain-made moonshine.
1946 - Bottles of Mountain Dew are given labels featuring the classic hillbilly design.
November 12, 1948 - The Hartman brothers file for and receive a copyright on the Mountain Dew name.
1949 - Barney Hartman dies, leaving Ally as the sole owner of the Mountain Dew nameEarly 40's - Brothers Barney and Ally Hartman, who own Hartman Beverage, begin bottling a lithiated-lemon drink to be mixed with hard liquor. It is dubbed "Mountain Dew," a term originally used for Tennessee mountain-made moonshine.
1946 - Bottles of Mountain Dew are given labels featuring the classic hillbilly design.
November 12, 1948 - The Hartman brothers file for and receive a copyright on the Mountain Dew name.
1949 - Barney Hartman dies, leaving Ally as the sole owner of the Mountain Dew name.
1954 - Tri-County Beverage begins carrying the first franchise of Mountain Dew.
1955 - Mountain Dew becomes available commercially. These are the first ACL (Applied Color Label) bottles of Mountain Dew, which read: "by Charlie, Jim and Bill."
1955 - Hartman Beverages begins producing the second set of ACL Mountain Dew. These bottles read "by Barney and Ally" because they were originally ordered in 1951, but were stored in a warehouse until then.....(Thus the Barney and Ally Bottles are actually the FIRST ACL Bottles. I have noticed some are marked with the glassmaker mark of Owen Illinois and some are marked Anchor Hocking.)