C & C (Cantrell &
Cochrane Corporation) Part 1
| Cantrell & Cochrane with
their C & C brand was the most prolific canner of soda in the short life of cone top
soda cans. The company's
beginnings can be traced back to 1866 when it started exporting a ginger ale drink to the
United States from Ireland.
Its early products were bottled in blob top
and Hutchinson type bottles. When machine-made soda bottles became popular, the company
was an aggressive producer of paper label bottled drinks and in the late 1940's adopted
the painted label bottle for their product. |
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The can producing companies did a good
selling job on C & C, and they tested their first generations cone top cans produced
at the New York bottling plant in the late 1940's. Their can distribution grew rapidly as
shown by the increasing number of canners listed on the label of the cans. By 1953, they
covered a large portion of the nation with their products.
In the late 1950's they switched to punch
top cans of which two generations have been cataloged. In 1964, they started canning in
tab top cans. Fifteen different tab top labels have been noted through 1985.
C & C (VM #1)
"SUPER COOLA"(Middle)-Flavor
on Triangle(Bottom)
Canned in: New York, NY |
DATE
SIZE
VALUE |
1949
12 oz
$ 150.00 |
(1-1) GINGER ALE
(1-2) ROOT BEER |
C & C (VM #2)
"SUPER" + Flavor
Banner(Middle) Canned in: V/M# 2-5 was canned in Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, and New
York, NY. All of the rest were canned only in New York, NY. |
DATE
SIZE
VALUE |
1950
6 oz
$ 65.00 |
(2-1) CLUB SODA
(2-2) COLA
(2-3) GINGER ALE
(2-4) GRAPE
(2-5) ORANGE
(2-6) ROOT BEER |
C & C (VM #3)
"SUPER" + Flavor
Banner(Middle) Canned in: V/M#
3-5 was canned in Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY. All of the rest were
canned only in New York, NY.
|
DATE
SIZE
VALUE |
1950
12 oz
$ 65.00 |
(3-1) CLUB SODA
(3-2) COLA
(3-3) GINGER ALE
(3-4) GRAPE
(3-5) GRAPE (Imitation)
(3-6) ORANGE
(3-7) ROOT BEER |
C & C (VM #4)
"SUPER" + Flavor
Banner(Middle) Canned in: Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY |
DATE
SIZE
VALUE |
1950
6 oz
$ 65.00 |
(4-1) GRAPE |
C & C (VM #5)
"SUPER" + Flavor
Banner(Middle)- "SANITARY DRINKING"(Top) Canned in:
Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY |
DATE
SIZE
VALUE |
1950
12 oz
$ 45.00 |
(5-1) COLA
(5-2) GINGER ALE
(5-3) GRAPE
(5-4) ROOT BEER
Mistake Can |
C & C (VM #6)
"SUPER" + Flavor
Banner(Middle)- "ENRICHED WITH VITAMIN C" (Bottom)
Canned in: Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY |
DATE
SIZE
VALUE |
1950
12 oz
$ 45.00 |
(6-1) COLA
(6-2) GINGER ALE
(5-3) ROOT BEER |
C & C (VM #7)
"SUPER" + Flavor
Banner(Middle)- "SANITARY DRINKING"(Bottom)
Canned in: Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY |
DATE
SIZE
VALUE |
1950
12 oz
$ 65.00 |
(7-1) CLUB SODA
(7-2) COLA
(7-4) GRAPE
(7-3) ORANGE
(7-4) ROOT BEER |
C & C (VM #8)
Single "SUPER" Banner(Middle)
Canned in: Chicago, IL, Englewood, NJ, Lake Alfred, FL, Los Angeles, CA, and Narrows, VA |
DATE
SIZE
VALUE |
1953
6 oz
$ 75.00 |
(8-1) COLA
(8-2) ORANGE
(8-3) ROOT BEER |
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