Johnnysoda
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Good pick ups bear! I'm jealous of the par t pak and sunglow!
Estate Sale Bottles, Two Unopened.
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RCO
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we have a lot of estate sales around here too , but never really found any bottles at them . there is a lady here who does estate sales on the weekend , its almost like its her job or a part time job . she seems to have one every couple of weeks somewhere in this area or say 1hour radius of where I live . usually at a house that has sold or home of an elderly person who has passed away or moved into a nursing home. but never really found much at any of these sales so far .
Robby Raccoon
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Johnny, I've never seen a paper-label Par-T-Pak, but I've seen them in ACL. It seems to be a national brand. Sunglow of GR may be a rare paper label. Still too modern for most collectors. I'm gonna carefully remove it and place it on the bottle better, for the seam bisects it. RCO, most are 1960s+ junk. I've seen early 1900s bottles, but usually overpriced and junk. Keep going, and you gotta get lucky. Bring a flash light and get into all the dark corners.
Not my area of collecting, but definitely nice to see something 40+ years old like it was almost new! The Like sodas were very interesting, and the others look like typical 70's blehhh, grandpa used to drink that with his gin. If you have writing on the ACL sodas, I've taken Goof Off to them without affecting the colors or taking off the embossing. Tried it on many many different ACL's.
Robby Raccoon
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I'm going to have to remove the caps, I'm afraid. One is deteriorating badly, and the other might as well be prevented from that. I'm curious to what it tastes like after over 50 years. 
Where do I find 'Goof Off?'
Where do I find 'Goof Off?'
CreekWalker
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He means goop, an abrasive hand cleaner, careful!
Robby Raccoon
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I suppose it might be at Menard's here. Thanks, Rick.
Robby Raccoon
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I was able to get the caps off by working around the bottom with a special tool and twisting it to gently flare out the sides. Here are my 4 Muskegon caps, the Lack's being 1950s, the Muskegon being 1910s, and the bottom two from the bottles which I resealed in plain red caps.
I have bottles for two of the 3 brands above, and the 5 C Off cap could go on any from the '50s and '60s. Below you can see how rotten the 'coupon cap' had become.
I had to, for the pic of the bottles, mess with contrast and brightness a lot, along with change tint a bit, to salvage what somehow became a very dark, illegible picture:
Caps leaning against the bottles they came off of. ^
hemihampton
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Robby Raccoon
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Those are very neat. Thanks for showing them, Leon!
