another "NP/NR" thread

[SODAPOPBOB]

I'm finally starting to get a handle on the acls and embossed soda bottles in general, but it's the no deposit / no return / throw aways that are boggling me now. Just to be on the safe side I have decided to start collecting every one I can find, and may even go back to some of my old haunts and start gathering up all of the one's I tossed over my shoulder while looking for what I thought were the real keepers. I bet I could go out in a single day and come home with fifty or more of them. And here in southern California it's finally starting to cool down a bit, which means the rattlesnakes will be denning up soon and should all be in hibernation by Thanksgiving ... I hope. My typical hunting season starts around Thanksgiving and last to about Easter (Mid April) when those dam* rattlesnakes start coming out again.

Anyway ... I just thought I would open up another nd/nr discussion and see where it takes us. Perhaps there are others out there like myself who are the new kid on the block when it comes to this category of collectible bottles. I only know of a couple of websites on the subject, and in my opinion neither one of them are all that good. So if someone knows of a good site, I guess that would be a good place to start. In the meantime all I can think to do is ask questions. Surely some nd/nr's are more sought after than others, but which ones are they? Is it like acls and rarity is the key factor? If so, which are the rare ones? Is it the first ones that came out in the 1960s, or is there a time frame where more collectible ones appeared? Say, in the 1970s or 80s?

As you can see I have a lot of questions this time and very few answers. But I suppose that's how a guy learns, from the experiences and opinions of others. And for those among us who are familiar with my likes and dislikes, you may be wonderng what all of this np/nr stuff has to do with my preference for cowboy and Indian acls? The answer is ... nothing! It's just that I know where there are a ton of old nd/nr bottles and hoping to learn more about them before I come home with a truck load of them. Plus, in this way I will never get skunked again like I do sometimes when I'm looking for nothing but acls.

Here's one of the few nd/nr bottles I currently have. It's has Pepsi on one side of the shoulder in block lettering, and blocked Pepsi Cola on the other side. I believe it was made by Ball Glass in 1990. At least it has a 90 on the base, and is the only two-digit number there is. But it seems a little late for a swirl style 7 oz bottle. Is it a keeper or should I toss it over my shoulder and forget about it?

If this thread takes off I will post a few others I have and see what everyone thinks. Plus I would love to see what the rest of you have and consider rare and valuable. But for the sake of simplicity, how'z about we stay away from foam labeled bottles for the time being. I don't know, maybe foam is where the main interest and money is, but I'm having enough of a problem with the embossed ones and don't want to complicate this thread any more than necessary.

Please don't forget about sharing a good np/nr website if you know of one. And what about books?

As always ... Thank you - Thank you - Thank you []

SODAPOPBOB

Here's my little Pepsi bottle ... whatta ya think?

 

[Anthonicia]

I know what you mean about throwing these bottles to the wayside. When you are digging through dirt, barns, barrels with idk what that smell is on them, well, you tend to not want the paper labeled bottles that absorb the nastiness!!! At least the all glass bottles will clean up and smell better (hopefully)!

From what I know, and that isn't all too much, that Pepsi is from before 1990. It looks like it's similar to the 10 oz ND/NR bottles from the 70's, but I cannot tell the embossing that well from your pics. Don't recall seeing what I am seeing in your pic on ebay either. Of course I have been wrong before. I am sure someone will tell you something more about it. Goodluck SodaPop!
You know Soda Popinski from Punch-Out? Thought maybe you were related?

 

[madman]

hey bob nice idea, i dont have a large collection of ndnrs, but i look for different brands, you could have a whole collection of pepsis or cokes theres many sizes and variants, so i look for stuff like kist, crass, crush ,diet rite...... heres one i just got 1972 dads

 

[madman]

im looking for a nesbitts ndnr anybody????

 

[madman]

hey bob one more, diet rite 1969, this is some of the most nasty stuff ever made ..... cool bottle..

 

[madman]

66pepsi 70s pepsi

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

madman ~

Thanks. Great looking bottles. I realize this subject is somewhat "old hat" and has been dicsussed numerous times. I even searched through the A-B.net archives and found some pretty neat stuff. But that requires so much time to click through it all that's it's almost exhausting. I guess what I'm hoping to achieve here is a ...

"No Deposit / No Return Hall of Fame."

So far, morbious_fod's Tazwell site has the best examples of some of the brands I'm hoping to see and discuss, but what about all of the others? Right now I wouldn't be able to tell you a Hall of Fame ND/NR bottle from a picture frame. Hopefully others among us will share what they consider to be the best of the best. (I'm not particularly concerened with values ... but rather with rarity and/or popularity).

Thanks,

SPBOB

Here's another one of mine ... "Sun Rise Beverages" from 1971 ... Twist Cap. Rare or common ???

 

[madman]

bob, id say the sunrise is a harder one to find nice bottle! although i know wheres theres tons of mountain dew embossed ndnrs behind an old house ,as could be the case for a sunrise drinker, the thing about the ndnrs is that there all in a land fill cept for the ones you find in the ditch or woods grab em............

 

[Anthonicia]

madman: Are those Dews all 60's ND/NR? The 26 oz one below is worth quite a bit if you can find one. The others seem to sell fairly well on ebay. Worth grabbing up I would say...

Sodabob, sorry if I offended you by asking if you were related to the best boxer this side of Ivan Drago? Punch-Out is the greatest ND/NR of all time. No doubt, not returning!

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Anthonicia ~

I wasn't offended at all. But I do misinterpret things from time to time. Which I think we all do ocassionally. Sometimes in a brief text it's hard to convey exactly what we mean. But there should be no misinterpretation now when I say thanks for the nd/nr Mt. Dew. I'd say it's the first Hall of Famer shown so far, even if I'm not sure whether it's you bottle or madman's. Either way it's a great example of a great nd/nr, and one I wish I had. (speaking of confusion ... is "Famer" a real word?). Lol []

SPBOB