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American Bottle Auction - Grapentine Collection Part 2


Auction Ended: Wednesday August 29th, 2007 at 8:00 PM PDT
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Auction Local Time: Mar 10, 2010 12:53:53 PST
Mar 10, 2010 15:53:53 EST

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE GREAT BIDS! WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS PART OF THE GRAPENTINE AUCTION. WE LOOK FORWARD TO PART III IN NOVEMBER.
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Catalog Lots 257 to 271

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Number
Description
Final Bid
COCA COLA CO. SEATTLE, Pint 8” Tooled crown-top. This one has some wear, but is one not often seen. We grade this a 5. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 110
COCA COLA BOISE IDAHO. 7 ½” Crown top ABM While there is some wear on the lower lettering, this is another scarce Coke. Grades a good 7. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 220
COCA COLA DENVER COLO. 7 ½” Tooled crown-top. This example has a ping out of the right front shoulder, and a couple of other minor imperfections. Grades a 5. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 100
COCA COLA RICHFIELD, UTAH. 9” ABM This later Coke is from a small Utah town and it is in pristine condition. Grades a solid 9. Est. $100-200, MB $100 $ 160
COCA COLA COLORADO SPRINGS. 9” Tooled crown-top. Here’s an unusual example with a rounded base. At a grade 9, this one couldn’t get much better. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 230
COCA COLA CROWN BOTTLING WORKS CHEYENNE WYO ABM Collectors are fortunate to have such a unique collection of early bottles to consider. Bryan certainly appreciated the variety of bottles out there and fortunately included pieces like these unusual Coca Colas. This one has a ping on the lower right front and a small pressure ding on the back base with a tiny flake off the lip. Grades a 5. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 950
COCA COLA DRINK DELICIOUS AND REFRESHING. 6” 1903, Hilda Clark tray. We thought we would include a Coca Cola tip tray along with the many Coke bottles offered. This particular tray is among the first Coca Cola tip trays ever produced. The woman in the scene is a dead giveaway. She seems more matronly than beautiful; simply a sign of the times and what a well-to-do Victorian woman looked like. Notice the fancy holder for her delicious beverage. This example has some dullness and crazing throughout the tray, including some areas of lost gold paint around the very edges. The actual image of the woman and most of the ornate decoration is still very much intact. A rare and desirable Coca Cola tip tray which grades about a 6. Not bad for a 104 year old! Hilda Clark, by the way, was a famous singer of her era and is pictured on some of the earliest and most valuable Coca Cola items ever made. Est. $1000-2000. MB $700 $ 800
COCA COLA BOTTLING WORKS PUEBLO CO. 7 ½” ABM This example has some pretty solid roughness, including a flake off the lip and a bruise on the base. An Average 5 grade for a hard to find Coke. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 160
THE BEST BY A DAM SITE COCA COLA BOTTLING CO NEV. ABM An unusually designed Coke bottle, it also says “Coca Cola Las Vegas” on base. Loads of embossing and an unusual design make this a popular Coke bottle for any collector. A light green-aqua, it is pretty much your standard coke color. PLEASE NOTE THIS EMAIL WE RECEIVED; I think a lot more people might respond to your Coke bottle "THE BEST BY A DAM SITE" if they realized it is more or less a commemorative to the men who built the Boulder (now Hoover) Dam in the early 1930s. There are still a lot of those good ole boys with us and they should be recognized for the absolute killer work conditions they endured, not only the magnitude of that job for the time but the extreme 140* temps in the canyon, the dare-devil highscalers and iron workers and everyone else who risked their lives and some who lost theirs, building that dam and helping those poor souls out of the Depression Era...so this isn't just some old coke bottle...from the daughter of a DAM builder believe me I know. RS A little rough but grades about a 6. Est. $200-300. MB $100 $ 400
COCA COLA LOS ANGELES. 7 ½” With the embossing around the lower area of these bottles, they were just begging to be worn and dinged up. This particular example has some fairly heavy wear, but the bottle itself is a 5 with no chips. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 160
COCA COLA LOS ANGELES. 7 ½” Tooled crown-top. Amber Los Angeles cokes are in demand. While there is some wear on this one, it still grades about a 6. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 210
PEPSI COLA Prototype, 7 ½, ABM Listed in Pepsi Cola Bottles by James C. Ayers as No. PT3 pink color, machine made, front and back single-dot script Pepsi on shoulder, 6 fl. oz at base. Four known to exist. Value $600. This was 1995. These were made by Wheaton Glass for Pepsi Cola in 1953-54. The color apparently clashed horribly with the color of the Pepsi and the project was dropped. There were a few found in a storeroom in 1969. So, this is a prototype Pepsi bottle, and it appears that it did not catch on. Bryan sought unique items even if they weren’t particularly old like this mint condition bottle. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 1,100
J. ESPOSITO KOCA NOLA (we got it right now. Nola, not Kola, sorry!). WASHINGTON AVE PHILAD.A. There are four Esposito Koca Nola hutches known and some fifty embossed and color variations including crowntop soda bottles. It is believed there were 36 different franchises. A rare and desireable Koca Nola hutch has sold for as much as $5,000! This example is quite rare and this one in particular has a lot of green in it. Condition is super, with possibly a scratch or two, and would grade about a 9. Thanks to Charles Head for the additional information on the Koca Nola Company. Est. $100-200. MB $100 $ 1,100
POUDRE VALLEY FORT COLLINS COLO. BOTTLING WORKS. With a mug style base, 7 ½” this example is in excellent condition. And it has a beautiful purple coloration. This one grades a 7.5. Est. $200-400. MB $100 $ 650
271 G. LAYER RATON NM. 7” Hutch style, with mug base. All New Mexico hutches are rare but this one is super rare. Raton is a small mining/ranching town in northeaster New Mexico and there are only 4 other known examples of the G. Layer hutch. This one has a little wear toward the bottom, but is overall a 6. Est. $300-500. MB $100 $ 850
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