old coca cola {good luck} watch fob

[woody_g]

found these while out hunting today coca cola watch fob says "drink coca cola in bottles 5c

armour and company token
front

back

 

[allen]

nice looking finds !
was the coke fob made like that
or did someone else do that to it ?

 

[artzstuff1]

Now that is a cool coke token or fob,,, never seen one with the good luck sign!!!


arthur

 

[Tank69]

very cool wtg

 

[woody_g]

House:
A sterling silver Coca Cola watch fob in the shape of a swastika, made in 1916, suggests the swastika was still a viable commercial icon in the teens. The Coca Cola Company does not list this fob among its collectibles and says it has no files on swastika souvenirs. The fob is a little larger than a Kennedy half dollar.
http://www.hoohoohouse.com/hoohoo_house/2008/07/early-use-of-th.html

it was made like that.found a picture on the internet of it.

 

[spartacus53]

That is a very interesting find and for Coke collectors a must have, if it is the real deal. I always thought the original swastika was backwards from the American Indian, then Hitler inverted it. Live and learn

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

That is one rare-ass fob you got there, Kudos!

 

[BareBones]

That is one interesting fob, it's a shame the attachment point is gone; but I suppose that is how it was lost in the first place.

I've always been aware of the Indian use of that symbol, but I did not know it was used close to the turn of the century as a good luck symbol in America. Excellent history lesson in the link.

I is a shame people get so wrapped up in symbolism and have such thin skin, but don't give the homeless guy living on the street in America a second thought as they drive or walk by him.

 

[tinpan]

Hi i think,if took this charm [fob] to a coke-cola collectors fair you would start a riot lol These sort of collectors are obsessed.That find of yours is awsome.

tinpan

 

[GibH]

Great finds. I'm sure you make a mint off that fob. Thanks for link as well, I learned something new.

 

[Goes4ever]

that is one AWESOME watch fob, congrats on a great collectible!

 

[Michaelangelo]

What cool finds!!
Woody_g-thanks for the history lesson. Had no idea of the background of the Swastika-just always tied it to the Nazis.

 

[woody_g]

thanks for all the great replies.definetly one of my favorite finds

 

[jimbob450]

That Coca Cola fob is one of the best find in a long time. Jimbob

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

Very nice, rare, find.

1916 or 1925?

http://swastika-info.com/en/startpage/usa/1069618500.html

No one seems to know, lol. It is an early piece and a very nice find.

Congrats.

Ray S

 

[Sorroque]

"Moral Order In The Universe", Navajo.
The Navajo symbol has some stick people and pennants attached to it.
The India swastika is not fancy.
So since the Navaho's are not Indian and the Indians are not Navajo, let's call them by what they are from hence for out. Natives and Indians.
Nice find. I saved a copy of the one in the link.
Speaking of Coke. Everyone knows that the Tersergiving French Lutherines used to ambush Tersergiving Spanish Treasure Ships on the West Indies Island of Colcaine? I think this place named Colcaine, West Indies, (1562), is no longer around.
Updated. After researching web, I have found no Island, in modern search engines,injuns, named Colcaine. So it is history too.

 

[woody_g]

went to half price books and found a coca cola collectables book.this was a 2001 edition and a complete fob with strap was 185.00.not that i want to sell it its just nice to see the value of it.surely the price has gone up since then.

 

[chemist100]

Great Find!!! seems that the swastica was used as a good luck symbol until the mid 1920's!!! check this out: http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,268640.0.html

 

[rogues71]

gratz on the fob. if you indeed can get any documentation on it, as a collectable item its worth rises quickly depending on whats on the current market. besides it looks unique.

 

[fatkook626]

Wow I found one of those coke fobs and was wondering how much it would be worth? It still has the attachment point but isn't in too good of shape besides that but you can still read coca cola in bottle five cents and at the bottom it almost looks like it says Milwaukee at the bottom in really tiny letters