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Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/10/2008 11:06:47 PM    GeorgiaVol   Posts: 158 Joined: 5/3/2008 Status: offline Im still new at this.  Does a bottle this damaged retain much of its value??  The lip is broken off and there is a nick in the very bottom of it. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/10/2008 11:07:25 PM    GeorgiaVol   Posts: 158 Joined: 5/3/2008 Status: offline nother pic Attachment (1) (in reply to GeorgiaVol) Post #: 2

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/10/2008 11:16:03 PM    glass man Posts: 1009 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline a bottle in that shape loses most all value. DON'T give up believe me stay with it and a mint bottle WILL COME YOUR WAY! GOD BLESS! _____________________________ Stand there's a midget standing tall and a giant beside him about to fall. Stand ..they will try to make you crawl and they know what you're saying makes sense and all.Stand don't you know you are free, Well at least in your mind if you wan to be. SLY (in reply to GeorgiaVol) Post #: 3

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/11/2008 12:03:57 AM    GeorgiaVol   Posts: 158 Joined: 5/3/2008 Status: offline No problem, I will just hang on to it until a bettter condition Macon, GA bottle comes my way.   (in reply to glass man) Post #: 4

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/11/2008 9:44:03 AM    digger mcdirt   Posts: 706 Joined: 8/8/2005 Status: offline The top can be cut off and a nice one put on to replace it. I use to chunk them but now I have them cut off and a new crown top put on almost impossible to tell it. _____________________________ McDirt (in reply to GeorgiaVol) Post #: 5

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/11/2008 10:04:51 AM    GeorgiaVol   Posts: 158 Joined: 5/3/2008 Status: offline How much would that cost and where would you send it to have it done? (in reply to digger mcdirt) Post #: 6

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/11/2008 12:53:00 PM    digger mcdirt   Posts: 706 Joined: 8/8/2005 Status: offline I get a man in Nashville to cut mine off he charges $5 . I find the closest top to match the color and have it cut to fit. Then I use a glass epoxy to attach it to the bottle. I think very few people could rally detect it if I didn't tell them. He uses a high speed diamond edge blade and it is a smooth cut. Ever now and then one will break but it's about 1 out of 50 or so and you really aren't losing anything per what you start with. _____________________________ McDirt (in reply to GeorgiaVol) Post #: 7

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/22/2008 5:47:28 PM    muddyfingers   Posts: 145 Joined: 9/23/2006 From: Tallahassee,Fl and Fort Wayne,In just depends Status: offline There is a gentleman in southern Georgia that replaces tops. His name is Ken Neese, he is well known and very reliable. If thats of any interest to you!                                     Willy (in reply to GeorgiaVol) Post #: 8

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/22/2008 9:07:55 PM    thesodafizz   Posts: 147 Joined: 1/13/2008 Status: offline I know Ken Nease, he did the Georgia Bottle Book with another guy.  I didn't know he repaired bottles tho.  It's nice to know things like that. (in reply to muddyfingers) Post #: 9

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/23/2008 3:21:16 PM    muddyfingers   Posts: 145 Joined: 9/23/2006 From: Tallahassee,Fl and Fort Wayne,In just depends Status: offline Yup! Ken and Carl Barnett wrote the book, both are really great guys to know in the bottle world. I just saw them both at a local bottle show this past weekend and Ken had a few bottles for sale he had repaired and if he would not have told me himself they had been repaired I would have never known. (in reply to thesodafizz) Post #: 10

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/23/2008 6:46:29 PM    bamascavenger Posts: 249 Joined: 9/1/2007 From: Al. Status: offline Ok, This raises a serious issue for collectors and IF as you say he did not tell you they were repaired, he would have sold them as like found condition buyer unaware? What kind of seller would this be? I personally will be looking and asking now! This i would say hurts the bottle collecting, sure you may be saving an old bottle, but...it IS NOT the same OLD bottle? Like people making NEW old GERMAN WAR BADGES and selling them as made in 1944 and getting premium dollars for a fake! I would consider these FAKE BOTTLES! and they will hurt the trade if pawned off as REAL! If a bottle is repaired it should be told or is it BUYER BEWARE in all business and collectibles? Where is the INTEGRITY of sellers today? The old green is too much of an evil and they can turn their head if they get 100 dollars for a repaired bottle? Ok i am off my podium now....Just my 10 cents worth!!! _____________________________ Army Rangers Lead The Way! (in reply to muddyfingers) Post #: 11

RE: Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle - 5/23/2008 9:01:38 PM    GeorgiaVol   Posts: 158 Joined: 5/3/2008 Status: offline I was wandering that very thing.  I just want them to be better displays.  As old and rare as these bottles are it is highly unlikely I will run across another one, but it would be nice to have better looking displays.  I agree these would be considered "fake" bottles though.  So I will diffinatly look VERY carefully at any bottle I am buying in the future.  This has all been very good information that I'm sure all bottle collectors needed to know about. (in reply to bamascavenger) Post #: 12

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