matt, welcome to the forum and the world of bottle collecting!!! most price guides are outdated by the time they r published but ther r some good reference books availabe. dont b afraid to ask questions here. thatis what we r for. collect what u like and just have fun son. ive been in...
every one has made some goods points to ponder. esp. guntherhess and his mention of price guides. if u look back at the history of bottle collecting the reference/priceguides have always spurred a feeding frenzy in bottles. for example watson's books on bitters and thomas's book on western...
grime5 i see uer from london. we just got back from a fishin trip to herrington lake up by danville. some of my ol stompin grounds. lol
from one ol pop bottle lover to another them are some nice cokes. keep up the good work son
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logueb, i noticed u used a hostetters for that trick. good idea! try an indian queen and see if she will lean. i might be a poet and dont know it. lol
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ron, me thinks they is something afoul here also. some bottle collector is about to get his or her fingers burnt. lol im thinking i'll send the guy an ebay email and ask for a pic of the base?
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worldcup, i dont no what the "nuke" gurus use to purple their bottles, but i do no that after awhile those "nuked" bottles will turn an ugly color of brown. also if the bottle has any aqua color at all it will not purple. i think the absence of maganese in the bottles is what caused them to...
ron, i don't buy the deal about the bottle leaning over while the glass was hot neither. u wuld think the bottle had cooled enough by the time the lip was formed to sit uprite?
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