CanadianBottles
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Five dollars is reasonable for the soda bottles if they're in good condition, but a bit unreasonable for the bleach bottles. I mean people do it quite a lot, but I wouldn't expect them to sell. I sell bottles at a flea market sometimes and I have a hard time selling that kind of stuff for 25 cents. Bottles like that are everywhere in the woods. The Squibb bottle wasn't a poison, it was a generic medicine bottle used for various products produced by the Squibb company.
In terms of collecting local bottles my advice would be to be patient. You'll probably find them for quite cheap one of these days. Buying up all the ones you see right at the start will cost you a lot of money unnecessarily. Generally in my experience sellers don't play up the local aspect for ACL sodas and local sodas will often cost more in other parts of the country where they aren't as common. Pharmacy bottles on the other hand are generally best to buy in other parts of the country, if you can find them. Which generally you can't. I collect B.C. bottles and live in Ontario, and I've only ever found one B.C. pharmacy bottle here. It was a good one though, and I got it for quite cheap compared to how much they sell for in B.C. If you're lucky, your area won't have a lot of bottle collectors and the bottles will be fairly cheap because there isn't much demand.
You're pretty likely to one day come across someone who will sell you local ACL sodas for five bucks a piece, especially if you befriend any local collectors. Or come across someone like this guy http://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collecti...-7/1088596297?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true Really wish I was at that sale today.
I was looking at Woodstock bottles online and found a few Baird bottles, two of which are for sale for ridiculous prices.
This one might be a somewhat reasonable price I guess http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Amb...06718e7&pid=100011&rk=1&rkt=1&sd=281990195441
This one is definitely not a reasonable price but look at that baby on the box, that face would almost make me want to pay that much for it. I have to wonder whether the illustrator had ever seen a baby before. It looks like a picture of Mike Duffy with hair. http://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collecti...ox/1161449666?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
And then there's this one which isn't for sale anymore. I don't know how much they were charging for it but generally bottles like this are worth about five dollars barring any exceptional extenuating circumstances. https://www.google.ca/search?q=wood...hUFLB4KHVOtBIUQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=LDoul5nk7Ud3DM:
You said you had a couple Baird bottles, which ones do you have?
In terms of collecting local bottles my advice would be to be patient. You'll probably find them for quite cheap one of these days. Buying up all the ones you see right at the start will cost you a lot of money unnecessarily. Generally in my experience sellers don't play up the local aspect for ACL sodas and local sodas will often cost more in other parts of the country where they aren't as common. Pharmacy bottles on the other hand are generally best to buy in other parts of the country, if you can find them. Which generally you can't. I collect B.C. bottles and live in Ontario, and I've only ever found one B.C. pharmacy bottle here. It was a good one though, and I got it for quite cheap compared to how much they sell for in B.C. If you're lucky, your area won't have a lot of bottle collectors and the bottles will be fairly cheap because there isn't much demand.
You're pretty likely to one day come across someone who will sell you local ACL sodas for five bucks a piece, especially if you befriend any local collectors. Or come across someone like this guy http://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collecti...-7/1088596297?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true Really wish I was at that sale today.
I was looking at Woodstock bottles online and found a few Baird bottles, two of which are for sale for ridiculous prices.
This one might be a somewhat reasonable price I guess http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Amb...06718e7&pid=100011&rk=1&rkt=1&sd=281990195441
This one is definitely not a reasonable price but look at that baby on the box, that face would almost make me want to pay that much for it. I have to wonder whether the illustrator had ever seen a baby before. It looks like a picture of Mike Duffy with hair. http://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collecti...ox/1161449666?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
And then there's this one which isn't for sale anymore. I don't know how much they were charging for it but generally bottles like this are worth about five dollars barring any exceptional extenuating circumstances. https://www.google.ca/search?q=wood...hUFLB4KHVOtBIUQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=LDoul5nk7Ud3DM:
You said you had a couple Baird bottles, which ones do you have?
