Dragon soda bottle (San Antonio; Three Rivers Glass)

Clear glass soda bottle with a crown finish, narrow neck, and rounded shoulders. On the shoulder panel a circular dragon roundel sits above embossed TRADE MARK and large block DRAGON lettering; the cylindrical lower body is vertically ribbed, and the heel reads SAN ANTONIO, TEX. around the base edge. The glass carries a faint straw tone in the thicker lower wall — typical of period crown sodas — with light wear and reflections on the surface.

This is Dragon Bottling packaging, not Hoffmann-Hayman branding, but it sits in the same Three Rivers Glass collecting lane as the other regional bottles from Glass Bottles from Three Rivers. We acquired it in June 2014 from jays-emporium on eBay as part of that six-bottle purchase.

Register: Accession HH-BOTTLE-2014-0003 is in_collection on the accession register. Heel or mold marks may still refine dating beyond the seller’s “1930s” framing.