New Yard Sale Finds

[Jonnycrush]

I normally don’t find anything at yard sales, but made up for it yesterday. Picked up quite a few interesting bottles at really reasonable price.
Small Javex bottle
Art Deco bottles,
61/2oz green Vess dry
7 oz America Dry
10 oz Shorty Beverages of Toronto
2-10oz kist (one slightly different)
Some Mae West orange crush which are condition upgrades of what I have all ready
30oz Amico Quality Beverages bottled out of Quebec.
30oz paper label Gurd’s kola-dry
The bottom reads Charles gurd & co, Montreal.
I have seen many Gurds ginger ale bottles and a few other flavours, but not kola-dry. From what I have researched it’s from the late 20’s. I paper is not in the greatest shape.
Any more information or Value on this bottle would be Great.
Hope you enjoyed my finds!!

 

[CanadianBottles]

Some nice finds there! What's the deco bottle to the left of the Shorty? Is that the America Dry? I don't remember seeing that one before. The Gurd's Kola-Dry is interesting too, I've never seen that one either. I can't imagine it's too common.

 

[Jonnycrush]

Some nice finds there! What's the deco bottle to the left of the Shorty? Is that the America Dry? I don't remember seeing that one before. The Gurd's Kola-Dry is interesting too, I've never seen that one either. I can't imagine it's too common.

Yes, America Dry. It’s not in the greatest shape, but it’s shape is really neat. The gurds is the most interesting to me. Can’t find much on it, except a small newspaper ad.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Yes, America Dry. It’s not in the greatest shape, but it’s shape is really neat. The gurds is the most interesting to me. Can’t find much on it, except a small newspaper ad.

Yeah I always pick up older labeled sodas like that, a lot of them are very hard to find if not unique. I know Gurd's had all sorts of different beverages over the years as well, they were very prolific with coming out with different flavours. A lot of their labels have been posted on that Montreal historical photos Facebook group but I searched and couldn't find this one.
The America Dry is likely a good one too, Canadian deco sodas which in original designs rather than the standard generic designs used by many bottlers aren't that common.

 

[RCO]

i haven't found many bottles at yard sales the last couple of years , seems to be less sales since covid and rarely any old stuff

not sure I've seen the America dry before , is it Canadian ? what markings are on the bottom

 

[embe]

nice finds

 

[CanadianBottles]

i haven't found many bottles at yard sales the last couple of years , seems to be less sales since covid and rarely any old stuff

not sure I've seen the America dry before , is it Canadian ? what markings are on the bottom

They all came back suddenly this weekend where I am. Not sure what changed but it was more sales than I've seen since two summers ago. Didn't find any bottles yesterday but I did do pretty well for records, which are another thing I collect.

 

[Jonnycrush]

i haven't found many bottles at yard sales the last couple of years , seems to be less sales since covid and rarely any old stuff

not sure I've seen the America dry before , is it Canadian ? what markings are on the bottom

I normally never find anything old at yard sales, but got lucky this time. I do believe it’s Canadian. The bottle says America Dry of Canada co. As for a makers mark, it’s an capital A with the word Dry under it and a empty triangle under that. I still haven’t found any information on it, but still looking.

 

[CanadianBottles]

I normally never find anything old at yard sales, but got lucky this time. I do believe it’s Canadian. The bottle says America Dry of Canada co. As for a makers mark, it’s an capital A with the word Dry under it and a empty triangle under that. I still haven’t found any information on it, but still looking.

The triangle is probably Consumers Glass, it should have a C in the middle but it may be too faint to see or left off for some reason. The A Dry is just a way for the company to easily identify their bottles when inverted, which I think typically happened at some point in the refilling process since in those days it was a common practice for bottlers to put an initial on the base.

 

[RCO]

They all came back suddenly this weekend where I am. Not sure what changed but it was more sales than I've seen since two summers ago. Didn't find any bottles yesterday but I did do pretty well for records, which are another thing I collect.

they've been terrible here so far this year , some weekends barely any and even when there is some the sales literally have nothing

all the bigger community /charity sales were called off due to covid so just smaller ones at single homes

I sometimes do find random things I don't typically collect but not this year