New record price for a bottle

[appliedlips]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57336213/coke-bottle-prototype-auctions-for-$240k/

I am not suprised, although wouldn't be in my top 100. It is a piece of Americana and transcends bottle collecting.

 

[bottlediger]

I had a feeling that would blow the record. Thanks for posting, I wasnt following the auction

Ryan

 

[Penn Digger]

Crazy money!

PD

 

[JOETHECROW]

Wow! I'd buy myself a nice New England farm or something....[8|]

 

[VTdigger]

I wonder what the highest price for a dug bottle was anyone know?

 

[andy volkerts]

Bryants cone maybe, gotta be in the running at $60.000.00

ORIGINAL: VTdigger

I wonder what the highest price for a dug bottle was anyone know?

 

[Alaska]

i believe that cobalt blue fish bitters that switched hands at the baltimore was dug. and that was 100k

 

[AntiqueMeds]

The coke is sort of an odd case since it was never made to be used.
The bottles we collect are production bottles.
But I assume no coke collector would turn it down.

 

[glass man]

I saw the other one at the coke museum in Atlanta[a cool place to go if in town there!] it is cool!!Hard to believe in 1979 I could have bought a few mint coke hutches [one with the mis-soelled CoCA COC] for 100 bucks a piece..lotta money then though and I was only into meds ...
JAMIE