H R Nicholson bottles

[Eric]

I have that sign.. don't have smaller one yet...
I have 3 crates.. I paid $20, $15 and around $25..
Seen some higher... again depends on city and condition...
I paid $100 for the paper carrier and 6 nice bottles (plus shipping)

 

[Eric]

bottle display $125 at Chicago show a couple years ago...

 

[Eric]

cooler, 2 crates and bottles....

 

[Eric]

And my best bottle find.. 13 off of ebay..

 

[johnfitzgerald]

Looks like you have a great collection Eric!!

 

[Eric]

Thanks... some is from the help of this site and members here.. I got my first crate from here and several bottles...
there are some great folks here and some amazing bottle collections... this has become my main focus... some
brands like Coke and Pepsi can get crazy money... Most I have are the common Cokes and Pepsi...
Then this little brand is fun to hunt... and since it wasn't bottled near here... I don't spend as much money which the wife likes!

I missed out on the company clean out which was around 2007 when the family (3 generations) sold out.. I talked with a couple employees..
she said there were stacks of bottle and boxes of caps all never used and she remembers seeing coolers like mine.... all hauled off!
She said there were even clocks in the building in the hallways... would love to get hold of one of those...

 

[LC]

There was a fellow here the other day and pulled one of those rectangular Nichol signs out of the back seat of his car to show me , thought he had something scarce . I believe it was the one that there are so many of them floating around .

 

[Eric]

Those signs came from the 1980s Railcar clean out behind the building.... there's a story in Soda Spectrum about that.... thousands of those signs...

 

[LC]

I have read something similar to that here on the forum I believe . The sign looks pretty old to look at it . The guy was trying to trade it to me plus boot for a Hires root beer sign I have .

 

[johnfitzgerald]

The 2007 warehouse cleanout you mentioned, Was that the one in Baltimore?.