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West Coast Favorite - 12/26/2011 11:26:51 AM    captcadillac   Posts: 92 Joined: 11/4/2011 Status: offline My sister in law gave me this beautiful S.F. soda for Christmas. She received a deeper cobalt one from a friend/dealer in No. Cal. Its my only West Coats soda in my collection (wait a minute, I forgot I have an early Babb,so its my second one) Its never been in the ground. Just love the style of the bottle. CaptCadillac Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: West Coast Favorite - 12/26/2011 11:27:49 AM    captcadillac   Posts: 92 Joined: 11/4/2011 Status: offline Here is the back Attachment (1) (in reply to captcadillac) Post #: 2

RE: West Coast Favorite - 12/26/2011 11:28:47 AM    captcadillac   Posts: 92 Joined: 11/4/2011 Status: offline The lip area Attachment (1) (in reply to captcadillac) Post #: 3

RE: West Coast Favorite - 12/26/2011 11:30:03 AM    captcadillac   Posts: 92 Joined: 11/4/2011 Status: offline The base. I think these come only in a smooth base. Attachment (1) (in reply to captcadillac) Post #: 4

RE: West Coast Favorite - 12/26/2011 12:08:20 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4300 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline That is cool! What a unique shape. I've seen those online before, what a nice addition! _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to captcadillac) Post #: 5

RE: West Coast Favorite - 12/28/2011 11:54:31 PM    Penn Digger Posts: 1909 Joined: 5/12/2008 From: PA woods Status: offline You poor gift receiver! PD _____________________________ Always looking for colored flasks (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 6

RE: West Coast Favorite - 12/29/2011 11:11:39 AM    captcadillac   Posts: 92 Joined: 11/4/2011 Status: offline What a bummer to have received such a nice bottle! These come in shades of cobalt, green and aqua. There is a blob top example which I think is a little more uncommon than this one. I saw a display at a show (Reno?) of these and there were about 10 to 15 different examples in various shades and tops. Recently on ebay an aqua one went for over $300.00 I was surprised that it went for that much. Are the aquas more valuable? CaptCadillac (in reply to Penn Digger) Post #: 7

RE: West Coast Favorite - 12/29/2011 11:41:13 AM    Dabeel Posts: 849 Joined: 3/12/2004 From: Baltimore origin, Now the Bay Area,CA Status: offline Hey Captain, Doug here in Oakland, CA to let you know that the variant you have so wonderfully received fall in the $150.00 to 200.00 range.(previous auction prices) The aqua one with a blob top can go $300-$400 because it is rarer. If you find a green one in the same style as yours you are looking at 1,000 +. Great gift by the way, I still don't have one in my collection yet. Hope this helps, Doug (in reply to captcadillac) Post #: 8

RE: West Coast Favorite - 12/29/2011 6:04:48 PM    captcadillac   Posts: 92 Joined: 11/4/2011 Status: offline Hey Doug, Thank you for the information on the bottles. My brother and I dug two green ones over twenty years ago in Napa county. Also, my neighbor dug an aqua blob top in the same area. All turned out really well as far as condition. I gave my green one to a friend because he had about 5 examples of this bottle. I collect mainly Eastern & Southern sodas, so I thought he would like the green one. I had no idea that they were worth that much. CaptCadillac (in reply to Dabeel) Post #: 9

RE: West Coast Favorite - 1/4/2012 5:53:45 PM    Lordbud   Posts: 2297 Joined: 6/16/2005 From: San Jose Status: offline Beautiful example almost royal blue. I bowed out of the local soda collecting once they went past $40-50 apiece. Now I have to pick and choose carefully according to budget with perhaps one or two expensive bottles per year, if that. _____________________________ Jason San Francisco Bay Area bottles and go-withs. (in reply to captcadillac) Post #: 10

RE: West Coast Favorite - 1/4/2012 6:36:38 PM    WonGan   Posts: 62 Joined: 12/25/2011 Status: offline I am primarily a digger,but that I would buy! _____________________________ (in reply to Lordbud) Post #: 11

RE: West Coast Favorite - 1/4/2012 7:29:31 PM    beendiggin Posts: 3005 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: offline Never seen that style before...both the base and the top are unique. Very nice example. _____________________________ Paul (in reply to WonGan) Post #: 12

RE: West Coast Favorite - 1/5/2012 9:08:38 AM    captcadillac   Posts: 92 Joined: 11/4/2011 Status: offline Thanks to everyone for your compliments on the bottle. I love the shape and color. I do remember when the prices averaged about $50.00 to $100.00 for a good soda or mineral water. It seems like they went a little berserk around 2004-2006 and then went down. These days the more desirable ones have seem to be going back up in price. I wish I could still be digging for bottles, but age has a way of making it so your activities change. So been diggin hope that you can enjoy digging for bottles for a long time, its a lot of fun. CaptCadillac (in reply to beendiggin) Post #: 13

RE: West Coast Favorite - 1/6/2012 2:08:28 AM    Dabeel Posts: 849 Joined: 3/12/2004 From: Baltimore origin, Now the Bay Area,CA Status: offline Hey Welcome back Jason(Lordbud) haven't seen you on here in a while! Happy New Year, Doug (in reply to captcadillac) Post #: 14

RE: West Coast Favorite - 1/12/2012 4:00:48 AM    GACDIG   Posts: 547 Joined: 9/10/2006 From: Concord NC. Status: offline In Deed a very odd shape and style bottle. Did it close with a cork?? Love it. gac _____________________________ Glenn Find, Dig, Dug, Enjoy ! (in reply to captcadillac) Post #: 15

RE: West Coast Favorite - 1/12/2012 4:06:20 AM    andy volkerts Posts: 795 Joined: 1/10/2005 From: Sacramento, California Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: captcadillac The lip area There was one at the Auburn Ca show a few yrs back, and it had a Hutter style stopper on it, not sure if it was stock to the bottle as the seller didnt have any history on the bottle _____________________________ wanted....All cure bottles not already in my collection.....And a few meds from San Francisco (in reply to captcadillac) Post #: 16

RE: West Coast Favorite - 1/12/2012 10:49:05 AM    captcadillac   Posts: 92 Joined: 11/4/2011 Status: offline My sister in law bought this one from a digger/collector out of the S.F. area. I think she bought it some years back because I seem to remember it while visiting my brother back in 2005. She told me that he had found in it in some rafters underneath a house. He just washed out with a brush. It definitely hasn't been tumbled and it needs a little more washing with a brush on the inside. I remember the Auburn show as one of the shows to go to back in the 90's. I went with my older brother and had a really good time. He knew some of the dealers there. One in particular was a really nice guy named Rudy Kuhn. He collected poisons and he gave me a signed set of his poison work books. He refused any money for them and said they were a present for me to take back to the islands. He passed away in the early 2000's? My brother received a huge poster of his called Rough on Rats. When my brother passed away, I received it and it is hanging on my wall over my bottles. CaptCadillac (in reply to andy volkerts) Post #: 17

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