Posted 8 years ago
BUTTONS123
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SLOPER & FROSTY,OWENS CASEY EAGLE SODA WORKS SAC CITY,
I have these wonderful bottles are they in demand and can I get appraisal,
please
Jeanette
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Posted 8 years ago
BUTTONS123
(3 items)
SLOPER & FROSTY,OWENS CASEY EAGLE SODA WORKS SAC CITY,
I have these wonderful bottles are they in demand and can I get appraisal,
please
Jeanette
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Nice cannot give prices on here...You should look them up individually.You will find most collectors for these type of bottles usually are in demand by locals of the origin of the bottle.
By the way those are excellent bottles!
Yes those are nice bottles!
Thank you for the nice comments! Yes I will look them up individually. Thanks for the tip!
Buttons123
I see Napas. While common, as they were around for almost a century in one form or another (1860s to 1960s, although I think the switched business control a few times) they have a large collector following.
Go to e-Bay. In the upper right is Advanced Search. Click it, click Sold Listings, and search from there.
The bottle must be identical in identical condition to use green prices (sold listings) for a value on an individual bottle (do not look at Live Auction listings, for those often skew prices all over). A damaged or dirty bottle will get less than a sparkling mint one. A machine-made crown will get less than a pontiled, embossed bottle, generally. A Buy it Now auction may be less or more than what one normally gets in a standard 1-week e-Bay auction.
While appraisals are nice, what an item is appraised for is often twice as much as what it will get. As such, don't spend money on getting appraisals, and don't take the price given by an "average Joe"-- while appraisers may be experts, they actually have only a general knowledge. What a collector will give is a lot different. Focus instead on finding what they have sold for in the past year, so you see their most current value.
If the bottles say Sac City, you're in luck. Western bottles (including Sacramento) are highly collected in the market right now.
What I see are a lot of applied top bottles, which makes them pre-1890 and more likely earlier. The plate-mold ones, where you see a rectangle around the embossing, may be as old as 1860s. Research what a pontil is here, because a pontiled Western soda is even better.
https://sha.org/bottle/
If you do sell them on e-Bay, make sure you pack well, and sell your lesser ones first. Buyers often look for experienced sellers with 100% positive feedback before they drop big bucks on an item. You also get recognition of existence by other buyers.
Good luck.