Damaged 1900 Macon Coca-Cola bottle

[GeorgiaVol]

Im still new at this. Does a bottle this damaged retain much of its value?? The lip is broken off and there is a nick in the very bottom of it.

 

[GeorgiaVol]

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[glass man]

a bottle in that shape loses most all value. DON'T give up believe me stay with it and a mint bottle WILL COME YOUR WAY! GOD BLESS!

 

[GeorgiaVol]

No problem, I will just hang on to it until a bettter condition Macon, GA bottle comes my way.

 

[digger mcdirt]

The top can be cut off and a nice one put on to replace it. I use to chunk them but now I have them cut off and a new crown top put on almost impossible to tell it.

 

[GeorgiaVol]

How much would that cost and where would you send it to have it done?

 

[digger mcdirt]

I get a man in Nashville to cut mine off he charges $5 . I find the closest top to match the color and have it cut to fit. Then I use a glass epoxy to attach it to the bottle. I think very few people could rally detect it if I didn't tell them. He uses a high speed diamond edge blade and it is a smooth cut. Ever now and then one will break but it's about 1 out of 50 or so and you really aren't losing anything per what you start with.

 

[muddyfingers]

There is a gentleman in southern Georgia that replaces tops. His name is Ken Neese, he is well known and very reliable. If thats of any interest to you!
Willy

 

[thesodafizz]

I know Ken Nease, he did the Georgia Bottle Book with another guy. I didn't know he repaired bottles tho. It's nice to know things like that.

 

[muddyfingers]

Yup! Ken and Carl Barnett wrote the book, both are really great guys to know in the bottle world. I just saw them both at a local bottle show this past weekend and Ken had a few bottles for sale he had repaired and if he would not have told me himself they had been repaired I would have never known.