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Agana Guam Coke bottle, revisited
Hello, There was a thread a while back (now locked) where I discussed the existence of an Agana Guam embossed Coke bottle. The Pacific War Museum in Anigua has one on display behind glass, however it is broken and in poor condition. I recently left the island after living there for four years...- daven2nl
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Broken bottle ?UTMAN & Co, ?EDAM, found on Guam
No way it rode a wave. It was about 3 miles inland on the northern end of the island, surrounded by high cliffs at about 500ft ASL. The area was a copra plantation in the early 1900's - not too far away I found a 1928 German coke bottle. Problem is that the area was taken over buy the military...- daven2nl
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- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles AFTER 1900
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Broken bottle ?UTMAN & Co, ?EDAM, found on Guam
Eric - BINGO! A. HOUTMAN & CO.SCHIEDAM Gin bottle. What it was doing in the middle of the jungle, in a pile of WW2 debris, I have no idea. Perhaps made it here from the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). I guess I know where I'm heading back next, to poke around some more! The area is all coral...- daven2nl
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Broken bottle ?UTMAN & Co, ?EDAM, found on Guam
Good morning! Unfortunately, it was broken, but I found what I believe to be a late 1800's to early 1900's bottle here on Guam. It was located in an old WW2 era burn pit, which may explain why it was broken. It was intermixed with WW2 era coke and beer bottles. I suspect this was a pre-war...- daven2nl
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Agana Guam Hobbleskirt Coke
Re: RE: Agana Guam Hobbleskirt Coke I exchanged emails with one of the Butler grandchildren who still owns and operates the Butler store here on Guam. Unfortunately he didn't know too much about the Coca Cola history on Guam specifically. He also did not have any of the Agana bottles I've...- daven2nl
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Agana Guam Hobbleskirt Coke
Re: RE: Agana Guam Hobbleskirt Coke Duane, those pre-1944 bottles are very intriguing, especially the ones without city embossing on the base. Since Guam was occupied in December 1941, the NY NY bottles could have been here before the war started but the 1942/43 bottles must have come in...- daven2nl
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Agana Guam Hobbleskirt Coke
Re: RE: Agana Guam Hobbleskirt Coke Back in the pre-war years there was one reservoir that served the Agana area - Fonte dam and reservoir. During times of heavy rain, apparently the reservoir could get silted up so the water quality wasn't the greatest. After the war, wells came online, but...- daven2nl
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A Heavy Unexpected Find
Sounding leads will be concave at the bottom. Wax would be placed here and the sounder can see what the bottom conditions are like - sand, mud, etc.- daven2nl
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Agana Guam Hobbleskirt Coke
Re: RE: Agana Guam Hobbleskirt Coke Duane, Those are all very nice examples of WW2 era coke bottles. My gut feeling is that they were also used in the immediate post war years also (returned/refilled). There is a gap between 1946 and 1950 - I find almost no coke bottles with these dates. In...- daven2nl
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Agana Guam Hobbleskirt Coke
I've had a bit of a medical hiccup (good prognosis) so my exploring has been limited. I'm still searching, and have found a couple pre-war Coke bottles, from 1940 and a German 1928 (Ruhrglas) coke bottle but none with the Agana embossing. I'm about to move to a new house located further...- daven2nl
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German Coca Cola hobbleskirt found on Guam
I stumbled across an odd one today. I have been exploring an area approx 1 square mile in the jungle of Guam that was ranch land (Copra production) in the pre-war days and occupied by US soldiers following the liberation of Guam in 1944 until the end of the war in 1945. The area is covered...- daven2nl
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Bottle hunting in Guam
The further I went back the more I found. I stumble across several pits in the ground, perhaps 4 or 5 feet deep and 20 feet across. At first I thought bomb crater, and my second thought was they they were American burn pits, but they didn't look like either. They were too perfectly shaped and...- daven2nl
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Bottle hunting in Guam
I had an opportunity to go back out exploring today, to an area I had been to many times before. Some areas of the jungle are pretty thick with brush, and you always have a feeling that around the next tree is something special, so it is hard to turn around and head back. This time I wanted to...- daven2nl
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Bottle hunting in Guam
Actually, out of every 10 hobbleskirt cokes I come across, only one is your standard green city embossed PAT-D bottle. Usually from either Oakland, San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle. I recently found a 1941 bottle from Missoula, MT, but that's the only one not of the four cities listed...- daven2nl
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Bottle hunting in Guam
I can't in this location, because it's federal property. There are plenty in other places though. I have about a dozen or so, all pretty nice examples, just for my collection. I suppose I could go into the Ebay hobbleskit coke selling business because there are hundreds if not thousands...- daven2nl
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