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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