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Landed me 10 old soda bottles. The names on the bottles are from left to right, O-C Beverages from Little Rock, Ar., Clem's Soda from Malvern Ar., the next two are Five-0 from the quality milk co. Fort Smith Ar., Made-Rite from Marshall Tx., the next two are Nehi from Columbus Ga, The little one says property of The Ouachita Coca Cola Bottling Co. Monroe La., and the last two say Bot. Wks. Clem Malvern Ark. I have heard of Nehi, but the rest are new to me.
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Yeah... I sent you a reply when you forwarded this picture on my phone that these are from the 20's to early 30's. With only a few exceptions, these embossed bottles aren't as desirable as the ACL (applied color label) bottles that came out in the later 30's. The funny thing about how painted label bottles came into being was that if you had a soda company, it cost you about a dime to produce a bottle plus the cost of the mold. When a person bought a soda, they paid a few pennies deposit on the bottle so that the soda company didn't have to replace it. Bottles were usually good for about 7 refills on average. Now another soda company comes along and wants to run you out of business. They pay customers of yours a penny or two "extra" for returning the bottle to THEM. Then they destroy the bottle. The result was that you were losing money with every soda you sold because the bottle wasn't getting returned and it cost you more to make a new one that the rival company paid to have it destroyed. When painted label bottles came out, the bottle cost dropped dramatically (to about 3 cents) and it was no longer feasible to buy your competitor's bottles out from under him.
On the good side, these bottles are starting to become more collectible and the prices should rise a bit. Now they are only worth a few bucks each. There are sleepers out there though in embossed bottles. I know of a rare Orange Crush that is worth over a hundred dollars, and those old straight sided Coca Cola bottles in clear, aqua, and brown are getting pricy. The best soda pop bottle I ever had was a Steamboat Soda painted label bottle that I sold for over $800, I once sold a soda water bottle (soda before they started carbonating it) that was made in 1856 for $6,000.
Before you run out and buy a bunch of bottles, you need to study for a while to understand the market and what is good to get. Bottles are the third most collected thing in the world, behind coins and stampa. There are lots of knowledgeable people out there that will rip you off, so be careful.
On the good side, these bottles are starting to become more collectible and the prices should rise a bit. Now they are only worth a few bucks each. There are sleepers out there though in embossed bottles. I know of a rare Orange Crush that is worth over a hundred dollars, and those old straight sided Coca Cola bottles in clear, aqua, and brown are getting pricy. The best soda pop bottle I ever had was a Steamboat Soda painted label bottle that I sold for over $800, I once sold a soda water bottle (soda before they started carbonating it) that was made in 1856 for $6,000.
Before you run out and buy a bunch of bottles, you need to study for a while to understand the market and what is good to get. Bottles are the third most collected thing in the world, behind coins and stampa. There are lots of knowledgeable people out there that will rip you off, so be careful.
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