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RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/4/2007 9:31:30 PM    georgeoj   Posts: 96 Joined: 6/30/2007 Status: offline When I see these Burnt Brown jars advertized, I always take the term Burnt Brown as a description of condition. Note that there is no mention of the jar as being old. Also, the sold as is with no return should make anyone take a long second look, even if they are expecting a new jar. George (in reply to marjorie040) Post #: 41

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 8:43:47 AM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Yes there were clear 1915 Cokes with the cities embossed on the bases.  Here is a clear SCA from the Laurens Glass Works that is embossed Swainsboro, Ga. I have found several 1915 clear hobbleskirts , but most were broken.  Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to georgeoj) Post #: 42

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 8:46:41 AM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Another view in sunlight.  This bottle has a slight amethyst tint.  It was found on the top of a dump that was covered by trees. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 43

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 8:49:03 AM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline The colors of the 1915 hobbleskirts vary from clear to coke green, and there is also the ones with the aqua/bluish tint. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 44

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 8:51:28 AM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I have identified three different glass manufactures of the 1915 hobbleskirt. CHATT Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 45

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 8:52:29 AM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline LGW Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 46

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 8:54:51 AM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline And ROOT Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 47

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 11:27:41 AM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline There are also those extra thick base 1915 hobbleskirts, like this Chatt. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 48

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 1:06:44 PM    capsoda Posts: 7703 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Great lookin set of Cokes Buster. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to logueb) Post #: 49

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 2:49:20 PM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Thanks Cap,   Just lucky to be living in that Cola belt. You would think that there would be a lot  of the 1915's and 1923's  around, but the majority that made it to the dumps were probably damaged when they were tossed.  Do you remember as a kid , picking up every soda you could find for the deposit?   Get out that Radio Flyer little red wagon and go up and down those dirt roads till you filled it up. Back then every bottle was cash.  The ones that the store owner wouldn't buy usually met a terrible fate.  BB gun, sling shot, etc.      _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 50

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 5:05:17 PM    capsoda Posts: 7703 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Yup, I remember. We would take them up to Pates Grocery (no convenient stores yet) and cash them in so we could get a bag full of penny candy. Those were great times mostly. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to logueb) Post #: 51

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 8:47:03 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 1601 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline Those are some  sweet old cokes buster.  I'm going to take the blacklight to mine and see what glows. _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 52

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/8/2007 10:12:35 PM    DJFALLS   Posts: 3 Joined: 7/17/2004 From: Portland Oregon Status: offline Love those Cokes.  I remember the wagon full of bottles also.  If I was doing that I was usually farther away from home than I was supposed to be.  Remember cutting coupons out of publications and bringing them to the store for cash? (in reply to logueb) Post #: 53

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/9/2007 7:34:40 AM    bigghouse Posts: 800 Joined: 7/15/2007 From: Essex MASS Status: offline some guy told me if u lay the white bottles out on tiles in the sun they with turn that color anna _____________________________ =] (in reply to DJFALLS) Post #: 54

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/9/2007 11:14:20 AM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Anna, If I placed the clear coke in the sun for 80+ years, it still would not turn the color of the coke in the first pic that started this thread.  Most of the SCA glass that I have seen has more of the pinkisk tint rather than that darker purplish tint.  That altered stuff just totaly turns me off.  Just give me the ol sca done the old fashioned way. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to bigghouse) Post #: 55

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/9/2007 1:30:53 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 4902 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline I'd have to respectfully disagree with that since I ahve found SCA glass in old dumps that was that shade or even darker. I think it just matters what combinations of iron vs manganese the glass contains. I dont think its unreasonable to think that >100 years of sunlight might = a few days UV lamp exposure. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to logueb) Post #: 56

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/10/2007 12:48:38 PM    logueb   Posts: 1382 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Matt, Your point is well taken, and I agree that I have seen various shades of sca colored glass.  The point I was trying to get across to Anna was that of placing a clear bottle in the sun and expecting instant results. I believe that it takes a long time in the sun to achieve a color change.  It would be great if there was some type of standard that one could use as  a guide to determine if a bottle was naturally sca or altered. I have seen a lot of the Whitmore and Durkee's salad dressing and clear medicines lately for sale  that I believe were altered because of the very dark purple.   I have several of the clear ones and home and have been thinking about placing them on top of the shop building and checking every few weeks to see if there is any color change.  If the heat breaks them, there is no loss.  I went back and read the first post and the ebay posting.  He was very clever not to mention sca in his ad.   "Beautiful purple amethyst" bottle is what he advertised. Personally, I believe this was an altered bottle. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 57

RE: RARE? 1915 PURPLE AMETHYST COKE - 10/10/2007 1:35:37 PM    bottlenutboy Posts: 2137 Joined: 10/10/2006 From: Bordensprings, Ala. or Esom Hill, Ga. Status: offline here are a couple pieces of very dark and original SCA ss cokes that i found pretty recently, these were dug in Cedartown, GA Attachment (1) _____________________________ bottles for sale on my website! go check it out! http://www.geocities.com/cleburneslim/index.html?1170417418125 also check out the same bottles on my freewebs site!: http://www.freewebs.com/bottlenutboy/forsale.htm Spencer (in reply to logueb) Post #: 58

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