new2bottles
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Another reason why many of these soda bottles bring so little may be simply time... So much time has passed that those who may remember these brands and bottles are no longer with us.
Many now can no longer relate to these or even know what these brands were. I see it in other areas of collecting. A couple examples are depression glass and vintage rotary telephones...
These are a couple other items my wife and I collect and have seen a major drop in both price and want. Footed tumbler glasses I once paid up to $80+ a piece you can now find on ebay
for as low as $15 a piece. Old wooden crank phones and desk rotary phones have dropped as the generation that used these pass on. Phones I could get $300 for
and could use are now bringing $175 and used as display pieces as landlines disappear and cell phones have replaced them.
Many in this younger generation just have no real memories/connection to this stuff... not their fault...My son, who liked going to the bottle shows when he was little, liked root beer bottles
because he liked drinking root beer... now at 17 he likes his truck, college football teams, has a part time job and a girlfriend... Old soda and root beer bottles, many he never drank or even
heard of is now something he collected and did with his dad, He still likes them... he just has no real experience or connection to these... To him it was just fun memories walking around tables
looking at the bright colored bottles and digging through boxes, getting a few cool bottles and bottle caps then going to McDonald's after the show.
Anyway that's my take on this.... Collect what you enjoy and what brings you happiness... don't collect as to invest as it may not hold the value you have placed in them. Be glad that you can still pick up nice bottles for a few bucks... And enjoy the hunt that, to me, is the best part.
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It came from Puerto Rico and was relatively expensive. It has a sister bottle, see pic. Speaking of Canadian soda, I buy occasionally from Canada, some nice things.