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WHAT IS A GOOD ACL? - 8/6/2008 10:59:14 PM    glass man Posts: 1835 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline I hope no one takes offence about this ,but most acl's look like more of the same. How do you know when you have a GREAT ACL? Are there books on what is a great acl? IS THERE A ACL THAT IS THE MOST HIGHLY WANTED ACL OF ALL? JUST WANT TO KNOW> PAT IF YOU COME TO THE BOTTLE SHOW IN ROME GA. IN JAN. OR FEB. AND YOU SEE ME DON'T SLAP ME! ok? PS. I SAW A TOM THUMB ACL .I HAVE SEEN A GOOD MANY OF THESE SO I GUESS IT IS COMMON. < Message edited by glass man -- 8/6/2008 11:02:02 PM > _____________________________ JESUS said"COME TO THE WATER,STAND BY MY SIDE. I KNOW YOU ARE THIRSTY;YOU WON'T BE DENIED. I FELT EVERY TEARDROP WHEN IN DARKNESS YOU CRIED,SO I STROVE TO REMIND YOU FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED. "children of the day" Post #: 1

RE: WHAT IS A GOOD ACL? - 8/7/2008 3:14:29 PM    glass man Posts: 1835 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline NO ONE HAS RESPONDED SO I GUESS NO ONE KNOWS? IS TOM THUMB COMMON? _____________________________ JESUS said"COME TO THE WATER,STAND BY MY SIDE. I KNOW YOU ARE THIRSTY;YOU WON'T BE DENIED. I FELT EVERY TEARDROP WHEN IN DARKNESS YOU CRIED,SO I STROVE TO REMIND YOU FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED. "children of the day" (in reply to glass man) Post #: 2

RE: WHAT IS A GOOD ACL? - 8/7/2008 9:05:25 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1759 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: online Experince. Yes. Several. Why? More? _____________________________ What I tell Paula EveryDay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfF0YkFtYg (in reply to glass man) Post #: 3

RE: WHAT IS A GOOD ACL? - 8/7/2008 9:06:33 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1759 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: online No. That's why I got it. _____________________________ What I tell Paula EveryDay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfF0YkFtYg (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 4

RE: WHAT IS A GOOD ACL? - 8/8/2008 7:48:41 PM    T D Posts: 174 Joined: 3/17/2008 Status: offline What a loaded question.  Collecting acls is alot like any other bottle collecting, in a way.  Pat is right "how you know" is experience; with me it's 30 years of every antique/flea/craphole place you run across looking for painted labels and 5 or 6 years of looking just about every day on the bay.  Now to me, very little is the same about acls.  I place a high priority on themes and colors of the labels, and rarety too. And also the bottle itself. (Deco, design, color of glass...)   I don't want to answer for Pat, but I believe he'll tell you some of the above,  but he definitely collects regionally.  I do too, but I still love a different/rare acl no matter where it comes from.  I can tell you this, unless it is an ultru-rare bottle, you can see a huge difference in price depending on the condition of the paint on the bottle.  Like older bottles, chips, dings, case wear, etc.also hurt the value of the acl, but also whether or not the label is centered on the seams of the glass makes a huge difference with top notch collectors, the shineyness (is that a word?) of the label, the correct overlay of the paint, (on a two or three colored bottle, sometimes the second or third color would be slightly off line with the first color) and also the condition of the glass.  Older bottles ( 1936 or so to the mid fortys) with two or especially three colors are very desirable and valuable, but ultimately desirability or "big money" for a bottle is usually scare bottles or just how much two fools want it.  "Great bottles are purely what you like, but to a Georgia acl collector, it may be a Big Hit from Brunswick, or a Brown Boy from  Atlanta, (we could go on for days) or a Mississippi guy might like the green and white Cotton Picker from Leland Miss.  Or the Indian collector might like the red, white, and blue Big Chief, or the cartoon collector might like a mint Deacon Jones, or...you catch my drift.  As far as the book is concerned, look on  thesodafizz.com, Kathy is your girl.  Finally, with me, I fear I'll never get tired of a really cool acl, but what scares me more, is every day I seem to become more and more interested in that odd looking glass with the bubbles and defects in it, and those funny looking tops, and those crooked looking necks and those misspelled town names, and all that other good stuff.  The bottle guru Bill Baab was in my house one day a few years back looking at my collection of acls (not alot of interest in that much advanced brain of his I feel sure) and he told me something that is definitely coming true.  The older you get, the more your collecting and interests will evolve into different bottles.  God help my wife. (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 5

RE: WHAT IS A GOOD ACL? - 8/8/2008 8:38:11 PM    morbious_fod   Posts: 758 Joined: 3/4/2007 From: The backwoods of the backwoods, Virginia Status: offline The answer in my opinion is to collect what you like not collect what is more rare. Just because something is rare doesn't mean that it will mean any more to you than that. To me the best bottle to get are the Tazewell Oranges from North Tazewell, VA; however, while hard to find in good shape they certainly aren't uber rare; however, finding one means a lot to me. Now if you offered me the rarest bottle from say Washington State, It wouldn't mean all that much to me rare or not; however, I would mean a lot to someone who is desperately searching for that particular bottle. Collect what interests you, to you a vinyl caped Jawa may mean nothing, but to a vintage Star Wars collector like me it is the prize of the collection, and no I don't have one. (in reply to T D) Post #: 6

RE: WHAT IS A GOOD ACL? - 8/8/2008 8:57:31 PM    T D Posts: 174 Joined: 3/17/2008 Status: offline Amen.  Now will all you folks stop looking at us like we're from another planet?!? (in reply to morbious_fod) Post #: 7

RE: WHAT IS A GOOD ACL? - 8/9/2008 6:13:35 PM    glass man Posts: 1835 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline VERY IMFORMATIVE AND I THANK YALL! IN 1974 I STARTED MY 1st bottle collection and it was acls. DID NOT HAVE TO BUY MANY AS IN THE EARLY 70s AS THE 30s and 40s HAD NOT BEEN THAT LONG PAST ,FOUND THEM UNDER OLD STORES ,ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACKS,ETC.WHEN I DID BUY ONE IT WAS NEVER MORE THAN 25 cents.MAN,IF I HAD KEPT COLLECTING THEM I WOULD HAVE A HECK OF A COLLECTION,BUT AS WAS SAID I STARTED SEEING CRUDITY,COLORS ,AND NAMES THAT WAS INTERESTING LIKE "SANFORDS RADICAL CURE,WISTERS PINE TREE CORDIAL,BLOB TOP SODAS FRION SAVANNAH,SHAPES LIKE IGLOOS,CABINS,CATHEDRAL WINDOWS,FUNKY COKE BOTTLES AND THAT IS WHERE I AM AND CAN'T TURN BACK! STILL IF HAD ONLY COLLECTED ACLS....? ONE I LIKED A LOT WAS DONALD DUCK. WISH I COULD REMEMBER ALL I HAD ,PROBABLY ONLY HAD ABOUT 100. < Message edited by glass man -- 8/9/2008 6:18:28 PM > _____________________________ JESUS said"COME TO THE WATER,STAND BY MY SIDE. I KNOW YOU ARE THIRSTY;YOU WON'T BE DENIED. I FELT EVERY TEARDROP WHEN IN DARKNESS YOU CRIED,SO I STROVE TO REMIND YOU FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED. "children of the day" (in reply to T D) Post #: 8

RE: WHAT IS A GOOD ACL? - 8/9/2008 7:19:05 PM    arthur   Posts: 476 Joined: 5/15/2008 From: new river valley VA/WVA border Status: offline hey Joe send me a pic of the tazewell orange.  I might have found a couple and may have the chance to get them.  One of the elder mtn folk here says she has some bottles for me and to see her wednesday.  She named that particular bottle when she was speaking with me. _____________________________ The underwater world has yet to be explored http://www.geocities.com/docdocdoc@rocketmail.com/arthursbottles.html (in reply to glass man) Post #: 9

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