New to Forum Coke 1915 and "Good Grape" Havre De Grace MD stamped

[reelcrazyfish]

First time posting, found this forum through Google trying to get a rough value for some bottles I found while fishing today. Found some broken glass being eroded from a bank. 2 Coke bottles, clear glass, with date of Nov 16, 1915 and "Havre De Grace MD" stamped on bottom. Then a really cool bottle with lots of "bubbles" on it and "Good Grape" written on the side and Havre De Grace MD stamped on bottom. Also found a piece of a bottle that is clearly much older, blown glass looking and really thick.

Any worth to these bottles?

I did a "search" of the forums, but didn't find anything specific for Harve De Grace.

Thanks guys!

JIM

 

[epackage]

Welcome to the forum... some recently sold Good Grapes... Jim

http://www.ebay.com/dsc/Bottles-Insulators-/29797/i.html?_sadis=200&_ipg=200&LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0&LH_TitleDesc=1&_sticky=1&_from=R40&_ftrt=901&_sc=1&_ftrv=1&_adv=1&_sop=10&LH_Sold=1&_trkparms=65%253A3%257C66%253A4%257C39%253A1&LH_Complete=1&_dmd=1&_nkw=good+grape&rt=nc

 

[reelcrazyfish]

Thanks! I searched E-Bay first, but didn't see ANY of those?!?

 

[reelcrazyfish]

Pic of Coke Nov 16 1915 with City Stamp on bottom

 

[epackage]

Not sure of the value on the Havre de Grace Cokes, I'll see what I can find out

 

[jays emporium]

The 1915 Coke from Havre de Grace, Md lists as Rare in Bill Porter's Coke Bottle Checklist. That means 20-100 examples estimated to exist. The value depends on condition but could be over $100 for a bottle with no damage in nice shape. This type of bottle sells well on ebay.

 

[botlguy]

ORIGINAL: reelcrazyfish

Pic of Coke Nov 16 1915 with City Stamp on bottom

This does not look like the embossing on a typical 1915 Coke bottle. May we see a profile view of it? I've never seen one with the patent number embossed on the base.

 

[cobaltbot]

Thats because its a pic of the base of the Good Grape instead. Welcome to the forum Jim! Havre de Grace is a cool town, my wife and daughters were born there! I have a good grape bottle like yours, its made by ROOT and they are a hefty little bottles. Has some value and Havre de Grace has lots of antique stores. The coke is a good one, not sure what you'd get for it but although I have over a hundred Havre de Grace coke bottles (find them at work) I don't have a 1915 yet. Show us a pic of your other shard.

 

[reelcrazyfish]

Thanks for the help so far guys! All the bottles I found: 2 Coke 1915 bottles, the good grape, and 2 bottles with "Whistle" written on them were all exposed by an eroding river bank. Hope to go back there with a shovel and actually do some digging. I'll post pics of the Coke bottle. Cobaltbot is correct, the pic above with pat number on the bottom is the Good Grape.

Thanks again!

JIM

 

[reelcrazyfish]

Here is the Whistle Bottle. It too has Havre De Grace stamped on the bottom.