Excelsior Soda Works - Hilo Hawaii soda bottle

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RCO

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found this before Christmas at a flea market in southern ontario, the seller didn't seem to be a bottle person and had it with some modern coke's , only wanted $5 for it so at that price figured I'd rescue it from the flea market


says "property of Excelsior Soda Works , Hilo Hawaii " on back Net contents 6 1/2 fluid ozs and a big EX on bottom


saw online there are some older Excelsior bottles , this one looks to be from 30's or 40's , really not sure if its worth anything , I'd have to assume a Canadian tourist brought it back from Hawaii as a souvenir then decided they didn't want it and it ended up at flea market

not sure if there are any Hawaii collectors on here , maybe someone knows more about it

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Very nice! I have heard of that co. but don't know anything about them. I would think Hawaii bottle are always collectable and some are even valuable.
 

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Nice one! I've seen Excelsior Hutch bottles posted before, I think they go for quite a decent amount despite not being super rare. I'd definitely have picked that up for $5 as well, I'd like to get a Hawaii bottle in my collection.
 

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Michael polka has all the info on Hawaiian bottles literally wrote the book on them!
hawaii has really nice whiskeys , medicines, and some of the poison cobalt with Japanese script
 

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Michael polka has all the info on Hawaiian bottles literally wrote the book on them!
hawaii has really nice whiskeys , medicines, and some of the poison cobalt with Japanese script

there does seem to be a lot of bottles from Hawaii that we don't see often on this site but are interesting , I'd imagine they'd cost more to buy in Hawaii ,
 

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