Alabama hutches & blobs

[E]

All,

I was shocked earlier today to learn of a local collector (Richmond, Va.) who has a small collection of very sweet Alabama bottles that he wants to sell off, does anyone know the value of these bama bottles:

1. Phoenix Bottling Works, Mobile = gorgeous 10-sided hutch in mint condition

2. Alabama Bottling Works, Birmingham (with more embossment and logo on opposite side) hutch in good dug condition.

3. CN & Co, deep aqua pony/squat blob with improved pontil, he thinks its from gulf coast somewhere. Anybody know this one?

He had a couple others, but these are all I can recall - since they were the purdiest. He wants $75 for each, a little steep for me, but I know 'bama bottles are typically scarce and I have none in my soda collection. I am leaning toward picking up the Phoenix for display. Whaddya think?

 

[glass man]

MAYBE SOME ONE CAN TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THEM THEN I CAN.SEEMS THE PERSON AIN'T SURE ABOUT THE BLOB,THE BOTTLEING WORKS SOUNDS HIGH FOR $75[HOPEFULLY SOMEONE CAN COMFIRM THIS OR NOT] SECIALLY DUG EVEN IN NICE "DUG" CONDITION. THE PHONIX SOUNDS GOOD ,SURLY SOMEONE HERE KNOWS ABOUT IT! I ONCE BOUGHT A HUTCH FROM ANNISTON ALA. [CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THE EMBOSSING WAS BESIDES ANNISTON] FOR $2 AT COLLINSVILLE ALA. FLEA MARKET! THE OLD COUPLE SAID THEY HAD FOUND IT UNDER THIRE STORE. I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT ,BUT GAVE A PRICE OF $45 TO A ALA. HUTCH COLLECTOR.HE BOUGHT IT! I THOUGHT I'LL GET RICH AT THIS ,THIS IS TOO EASY! WELL NEEDLESS TO SAY I WAS NEW TO THE BOTTLE WORLD! I SURE DIDN'T GET RICH! IT WAS IN THE 70'S. OH WELL!

 

[E]

GlassMan,

I ain't no salesman = anything I find/purchase usually stays in my collection unless I give it away, or it gets misappropriated by friends and/or family (sadly much of my collection has been lost and scattered in this way). I've never desired making money off of bottles - I am a pure collector.

I certainly ain't a rich man, but I do have a decent job and limited vices to drain my cash away: I don't frequent bars (I do like to tilt a few brews now and then though), I don't play the ponies (except for pony soda bottles), I don't do golf (my pals spend $200 on golf and related paraphenalia), I drive an old beat up - but paid for truck, and I don't chase women around (I gotz a good wife). The result is that do have some cash to purchase bottles. In recent times I have opted to go more with quality over quantity = buy a few dream bottles instead of several more common bottles.

The Phoenix looks like a good purchase, but if I hear that it is a common bottle I will likely back off on buying (we have the local RABCA bottle show coming up in October, may be wise to pool my cash).

You been digging any?

 

[banshee65]

I would back away from the Alabama Bottling Works bottle. I bought mine for $10.00 in dug condition and have seen others in better (pristine) condition at the bottle show here for $40.00-up. I mainly collect B'ham bottles so I can't help you with the coastal ones. I wish I had some some spare bottles to sell to you, but keep looking, those B'ham hutches are not as uncommon as you might think! (Except maybe the Coca Cola)

 

[capsoda]

The Alabama Bottling Works is a common bottle and worth 20 bucks or so and so is the Phoenix Bottling Works. The pony blob CN & Co may be worth 50 bucks or so in good condition. It used to be a big money maker but Ebay and Ivan changed all that.

Oh yeah, they will be alot higher at bottles shows but rarely sell.

 

[E]

Very cool, thanx to all for the info, I'll wait till I can make a gulf coast trip before I pick up my bama bottles - really like the looks of the Phoenix. Gotta love our forum, E.