BARQS19
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Joined: 6/4/2004 From: Brooklyn, Mississippi Status: offline
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Hi Bandit, I don't collect but do find them and sell them to other collectors. There are many many NDNR bottles out there, many odd balls too, I even have quite a few Barq's throwaways. Your best NDNR bottles are your ACL. If you threw the bottle away or even out in the woods, most likely the label came off a lot sooner than say a returnable bottle because the paint wasn't as thick or as good as a returnables, it wasn't made to last because you threw it away. I have sold certain ACL NDNR bottles for various prices. The most I ever got for one was around $100-$150 ( was a long time ago ) and it was a 1950s RC. That Orange Crush bottle you got there is a good one and could be worth something, I know Orange Crush collectors who go crazy of OC stuff. Some but not all Coca Cola ACL NDNR are worth a lot. I've got two that are in the $25 range ( must be common now because Petrettis lists them at around $200, I've listed it twice on ebay and no one ever bought them. One is a 32 oz, the other is a 8 oz from New Zealand.) If you are interested I'll send pictures, I need to sell them, I don't collect NDNR. If you want to get prices you need to contact the biggest collector I know, if this isn't him that I'm talking to. Anytime a rare bottle pops up he bids on it and I think he is from NC or SC. His email address is sodapopkid27023@yahoo.com As for Trying not to break it's post, contact mike elling, the biggest RC collector I know at cheromike@citlink.net he might know. Back to NDNR bottles I saw a bottle the other day, 32oz that had people's signatures all over it, it never said what it was for but I gurantee that it must have cost a good bit to make this mold, all the signatures were scattered all over the bottle and were embossed, on the bottom it said Water Valley, Miss 1973, maybe a glass company but I am not famliar with that one from Mississippi, may ahve been Missouri or something. They wanted $75, could have been worth that or more but I tend to stay away from stuff I am unfamliar with. I forgot to buy a NDNR bottle at a store today, going across the bottle on the inside was a STRING OF GLASS! I have seen this in coke bottles before, a very big NO NO, should have been destroyed, had this broken off and someone swallowed it there would have been a lawsuit. Anyway give sodapopkid a email, he may answer, you can type that same name into ebay and pull up his ebay id and his MY page that talks about his collecting. He was set up at the national show in TN a few years ago with his collection. Robert Sherrill BARQS19
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