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The largest - 6/6/2008 10:36:01 PM    arthur   Posts: 476 Joined: 5/15/2008 From: new river valley VA/WVA border Status: offline Excluding me for sure, whom on the forum can brag they have the largest collection of bottles of any kind.  arthur Post #: 1

RE: The largest - 6/6/2008 10:40:08 PM    madman   Posts: 4859 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: online yo art, ive got a large collection, but ithink wonka pete has got the largest soda collection,  and mike o hasd a large one also  and rohnas got the milks mike (in reply to arthur) Post #: 2

RE: The largest - 6/6/2008 11:55:19 PM    morbious_fod   Posts: 753 Joined: 3/4/2007 From: The backwoods of the backwoods, Virginia Status: offline Agreed Wonka Pete has a huge collection of sodas with almost any brand you can think of. (in reply to madman) Post #: 3

RE: The largest - 6/7/2008 1:01:39 AM    thesodafizz   Posts: 167 Joined: 1/13/2008 Status: offline Now, don't flip out, but last time I counted them (was when I wrote all of them down and then my computer crashed), I had about 7000, and that was back when Food Network did a teeny spot about me and asked.   Now, I would guess it to be about 8000-9000 easily (and why I haven't done a recount and list).  I also picked up most of mine when they were still a buck or two (and people thought I was crazy).  Those days are over..... But, some of you have a lot of the higher ended bottles I don't have.   When I started, I got everything....then started trading off some duplicates and trying to consolidate - was too many and I gave up.   So, I have lots of duplicates - just have to organize them separate from the keepers.   That could take days, weeks, months, years......hehe. I keep saying I am going to do it.  And I guess I will, next blue moon we have. There was at one time no way you could move in my house without knocking a bottle over.  Heck, one time I was leaning back in my computer chair and it must have been sitting the wrong way on the floor with its feet for me to lean back and backwards I went.  I was on the phone at the time and all the other person heard was hysterical laughing.  So, he laughed too, having no idea what he was laughing about, which just made it funnier....  When I finally calmed down enough to explain what had happened, I went into giggles again.   I had stacked six-pack carriers of Coke commemorative bottles one on top of the other about six deep behind my chair, with just enough room for the chair to roll back and let me out (they were traders at the time), and it was this spot that the chair had fallen back into - but you could hear the tinkling of glass as it went.   (No bottles were injured in the incident.)  What a sound he must have heard.  But the funny part was - I was surrounded by bottles behind me, beside me and there I laid, with my feet up in the air -  I couldn't roll left or right to get out of the chair, couldn't go backwards and the chair's seat kept me from getting straight up - and there I was.  Stuck in a wall of bottles.  All I could do was laugh. Now, if that had been taped, and sent to Funniest Home Videos, it would have had to won the money (to buy more bottles with). Ah well, one day in the life......... K (in reply to morbious_fod) Post #: 4

RE: The largest - 6/7/2008 8:35:55 AM    grime5   Posts: 241 Joined: 10/28/2005 From: london ky Status: offline i dont have a lot of high end bottles either. but at last count i had around 14,000 bottles.i hate to even throw away an acl coke minus the acl if i find it in a creek or dig it out of a dump. but i seem to collect everything.i got about 65,000 wheat pennies, 5,000 hotwheel cars, 600 different types of produce stickers,around 200,000 unscratched sample lottery tickets.need i go on. later greg _____________________________ always looking for london ky bottles or other advertising looking for 1915 and 1923 cokes (in reply to thesodafizz) Post #: 5

RE: The largest - 6/7/2008 9:30:07 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1758 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: online I'm nowhere in the running on this. I only got around 2500 painted crown top w/ 800 or so displayed in the house. What I wanna see is some of them Hot Wheels. To be specific them 1960s early 70s models, the ones I had. Still got some of my tracks at Mamas.Red Lines to boot. Show us some of them Gregg,please _____________________________ What I tell Paula EveryDay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfF0YkFtYg (in reply to grime5) Post #: 6

RE: The largest - 6/7/2008 12:13:12 PM    T D Posts: 174 Joined: 3/17/2008 Status: offline I just stopped my wife from what she was doing to come and read these posts, so maybe she'd see I wasn't completely nuts.  Didn't help any...About 600+ acls, 40 or so embossed sodas over here (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 7

RE: The largest - 6/7/2008 12:16:25 PM    T D Posts: 174 Joined: 3/17/2008 Status: offline Oh and I forgot, me too on the Hot Wheels.  Had all the tracks and stuff, didn't like the Matchbox stuff, only Hot Wheels with the mags and red line tires... (in reply to T D) Post #: 8

RE: The largest - 6/7/2008 10:42:26 PM    bottleopop   Posts: 11 Joined: 2/15/2008 Status: offline I'm fairly new at collecting bottles, and my only interest is in crown top design-embossed sodas (some kind of artistic design, not just an embossed name).  Currently I have about 660 crown top design-embossed sodas. (in reply to arthur) Post #: 9

RE: The largest - 6/7/2008 10:48:52 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Isn't there a name for that when you collect that much stuff? _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to grime5) Post #: 10

RE: The largest - 6/7/2008 11:00:13 PM    thesodafizz   Posts: 167 Joined: 1/13/2008 Status: offline A name for it - or course there's a name for it.   I tease my friend that he has a bottle obsession.   Obsession fits it for him.   I don't know what it is for me.  Add to my building full of bottles (yeah, to get them out of the house so everytime you moved you didn't knock one over, a building was built - 35 x 16 - and it's about full; most of the duplicates live here, the rest - good stuff - is in display cabinets in the house); so, add to the bottles the signs, trays, crates, cartons, bottle caps, calendars, glasses, magazine ads, posters, photographs, cancelled checks, tradecards, etc. and it makes a lot of "stuff."   But geez is it fun chasing it all down, and the people you meet doing it. So, obsession can be a good thing........ K (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 11

RE: The largest - 6/8/2008 12:17:30 AM    lobeycat Posts: 3801 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline Hording? OCD? Cwazyness? _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8XDgVe2EU long lost recipe (in reply to thesodafizz) Post #: 12

RE: The largest - 6/8/2008 12:40:51 AM    acls   Posts: 305 Joined: 6/2/2005 Status: offline I think we all have a little B.O. here................like Kathy said bottle obsession. _____________________________ Always looking for unusual ACL versions of Nehi, Lemmy, Squeeze, Smile, Spiffy, RC, Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, Barq's, Frostie, 7up, and Sunrise. Also looking for Tennessee ACLs. Buy or trade. (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 13

RE: The largest - 6/8/2008 1:46:09 AM    capsoda Posts: 7915 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online OOOH Thanks TD, Now she is sure that your nuts and that you hang out on this forum full of nuts!!! I have over 300 Pensacola, Florida bottles. That includes pharmacys, sodas, milks, poisons, meds and a few other miscellaneous Pensacola bottles. Used to have 1000 or so sodas and 600 embossed and labeled food and product jars and bottles but sold most of the too.but cut way back. Also have a bunch of fruit jars but havent counted them lately. _____________________________ 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 acls) Post #: 14

RE: The largest - 6/8/2008 8:02:20 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Its going to me over 90 degrees here today I'm sure I'll have B0 to. _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to acls) Post #: 15

RE: The largest - 6/8/2008 8:54:39 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline I am what you call a switcherupper, when I dig better stuff I move bottles off the (good) shelf to the windowsill.I keeps going around and around until I have to  put stuff  in boxes.I don't buy a whole lot,as a matter of fact I haven't bought in a long while.I rely mostly on digs to fill my shelves.Then you have them slow dig periods like now, where you just stare at the stuff you dug and thank the bottle god. Here is one shelf, I had to do two shots the shelf is to long to get it in one pic. Attachment (1) < Message edited by RICKJJ59W -- 6/8/2008 8:57:26 AM > _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to thesodafizz) Post #: 16

RE: The largest - 6/9/2008 11:26:24 AM    ncbred77 Posts: 200 Joined: 3/12/2007 From: Macclesfield, NC Status: offline I've just been collecting bottles for about two years now.  I'd say I have around 150-200.  98% of them are embossed and local.  That keeps the numbers down quite a bit and more money to collect other things :). My other collections are of baseball cards, NY Yankees memorabilia, comic books (regret selling my older Amazing Spiderman comics), hotwheels, arrowheads, fossils and a small collection of coins.  I don't get rid of much. My wife wonders if I have O.C.D.  Its like I will be hooked on one of my collections for a while then all of a sudden I turn to another one.  Some not so much anymore. _____________________________ Always looking Mint Cola bottles, and local bottles from North Carolina (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 17

RE: The largest - 6/9/2008 7:01:49 PM    grime5   Posts: 241 Joined: 10/28/2005 From: london ky Status: offline here ya go pat heres some of my redlines i found like 6 more when i was putting those up that i didnt get a picture of. and here is a few treasure hunts there is around 500 of those in my collection and probably 30 more red lines at my moms. and a picture of my sons 1967 barracuda _____________________________ always looking for london ky bottles or other advertising looking for 1915 and 1923 cokes (in reply to ncbred77) Post #: 18

RE: The largest - 6/9/2008 7:22:56 PM    ncbred77 Posts: 200 Joined: 3/12/2007 From: Macclesfield, NC Status: offline 500 Treasure Hunts????  Jesus Christ!  I've found one in my life time.  The only redlines I have are a couple years old . _____________________________ Always looking Mint Cola bottles, and local bottles from North Carolina (in reply to grime5) Post #: 19

RE: The largest - 6/9/2008 7:39:36 PM    GeorgiaVol   Posts: 209 Joined: 5/3/2008 Status: offline Been collecting for only 2-3 months now (I'm still a baby, waaaah).  My oldest Obsession is collecting Video games.  Got about 9-10 different systems and over 1000 different games for them. Guess I got OVGC disorder. PS if anyone has an Atari Jaguar they dont want just let me know (in reply to ncbred77) Post #: 20

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