Is this considered damage?

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tropichahni

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I have a bottle I picked up in a bottle of crates at auction today. It has what appears to be an open bubble. So the bubble was just below the surface or open and I don't know If you would consider that damage.
 

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While this sort of thing can be considered as part of the manufacturing process and not damage, it's location, size and severity does distract from it's value to most collectors. Some collectors might ignore it but most won't. It look like in this case the bubble had a cover and that was broken off thus considered damage to many. If it were just a very, very thin so called "Onion Skin" cover that was missing it wouldn't matter as much. IMHO!
Jim
 

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As already stated, we usually consider it damage-- almost unavoidable damage from when it was a young lad.
 

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Very cool though. Gives insight as to how fragile these were and re-use was probably avoided. I think the cleaning process would be damaging before refilling.
 

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Very cool though. Gives insight as to how fragile these were and re-use was probably avoided. I think the cleaning process would be damaging before refilling.
These were absolutely refilled, probably thousands of times. And they weren't fragile at all, this one was just defective. It wasn't economically viable to use soda bottles without refilling them until the 60's or so, the bottle cost significantly more than the soda inside. This one may not have been refilled though, if I was the bottler I would have discarded a bottle with a burst bubble like that as damaged.
 

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