Brown Coca Cola

[NHBandit]

What an odd find yesterday in a local antique store. 5 or 6 straight sided brown Coca Cola bottles with the necks cleanly cut off with some sort of saw. Hard to explain without pics I know but they were cut a couple inches below where the cap would go so they still had a bit of a taper to them. At $10 each I almost bought one just because but I decided to pass on them as having no value. The cuts looked old and these were obviously very old bottles but why would someone do this ? To make drinking glasses out of them ?

 

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[bottlehunterofcoscob]

What an odd find yesterday in a local antique store. 5 or 6 straight sided brown Coca Cola bottles with the necks cleanly cut off with some sort of saw. Hard to explain without pics I know but they were cut a couple inches below where the cap would go so they still had a bit of a taper to them. At $10 each I almost bought one just because but I decided to pass on them as having no value. The cuts looked old and these were obviously very old bottles but why would someone do this ? To make drinking glasses out of them ?

I believe the somewhat strange or questionable practice often with straight sided cokes with damages tops is to saw them off and "repair" them with undamaged tops. Not a practice I'm personally fond of but it's done fairly often.

 

[NJKLAGT]

Yep, they probably meant to make drinking vessels out of the already-damaged bottles. Nobody in their right mind would do that to an amber straight side unless it was already busted somewhere above the shoulder. They've lost 99 percent of their value to a serious collector, but it's still a great way to repurpose those broken beauts.

NJK

 

[NJKLAGT]

True, 'cob, they may have been selling them for someone else to repair.

Yeah, I couldn't stand looking at a Frankenstein bottle with a body and head from two different specimens. Even if they were exactly the same in colour and every other characteristic, it would look so dang obvious. Glass is a tricky thing to glue together just right.

 

[kingskid1611]

When I read your title I was thinking what did they find in the Coke. When I worked for Coke we found all kinds of things floating in them bottles.....Holy crow Brown Coke...

 

[bottlehunterofcoscob]

When I read your title I was thinking what did they find in the Coke. When I worked for Coke we found all kinds of things floating in them bottles.....Holy crow Brown Coke...

Do I wanna know what you found? Hahaha

 

[kingskid1611]

Do I wanna know what you found? Hahaha

you name it and it was there......use your imagination from there.

 

[Goldenplug]

As I'm reading and sipping on a can of A&W Root Beer... darn