1920s Coca Cola crate with unopened bottles

Good morning fellow antique lovers! I stumbled across this old Coca Cola 6 pk bottle crate with unopened bottles. The bottles are the "Christmas" bottles dated Dec 25, 1923. I cannot find this crate on EBay or Worthpoint. Do we have any Coca Cola experts that can tell me more about this? I can try to upload more photos but this forum makes photos difficult.

 

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Thank you all for your assistance. I was able to resize the photos. Any help or information on the Coca Cola is appreciated.

 

I think you need to do some research as to when ingredients were required in U.S. food labelling and when Coca-Cola was first made with high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar. (Wasn't too long ago if I remember.)

Debora

 

A quick internet search tells us that Coca-Cola began using high fructose corn syrup in 1980. That would be the earliest date for your bottles.

Debora

 

Where is the Dec 25, 1923 date located? I can't seem to find it in the photos.

 

Did Coke date their bottles.......???......

 

It's likely the 1989 or 1990 reproductions. The 1923 date is the patent date of the bottle shape. http://www.teampins.com/1923cokenotes.html
Someone probably put the new bottles in the old case, because it looks much cooler that way.

 

How to date a Coke bottle.....https://myweatheredhome.com/dating-old-coca-cola-bottles/

 

I remember reading where Coca Cola was exempt from listing ingredients on their glass bottles. The old bottles had fired-on lettering and were re-used. To add an ingredient list would have required a whole change in bottling. Coca Cola was (and probably still is) very well connected politically. The rule was bent to allow them to put the ingredients on the cap.