Posted 7 years ago
Jaxpirate
(8 items)
This is a DAYTONA COCA COLA BOTTLING CO bottle. It is pre machine, with COCA COLA in script, in a circle slug plate. I believe it is circa 1910 to 1915. I have researched available Daytona newspapers from the time period, but have only found ads for the year 1915. Also known to exist are an aqua straight side, with script embossing and a siphon seltzer with script lettering.
This baby has gotta be worth hundreds of sodas now. I can't imagine how much it's worth for it being so early. I know it HAS to be at least 250, but I could be wrong.
McCoy Nelson, you can buy mint-condition scripted straight-side Cokes for 20 USD. While some are worth thousands, the vast majority are worth under 70 USD. I got two for under 20 USD.
I'd think this is a good one, though. Southern bottles, generally, have more value than Northern, I've noticed. And Florida seems to have a large number of collectors, meaning that they'll drive prices up.
Now, if it were a Hutchinson style bottle from Coca-Cola, then you're talking money (for originals, not repros.) Even damaged examples sell.
If anyone has a Worthpoint account, I'm curious to see what the value is for a clean, undamaged example like this.
https://www.worthpoint.com/inventory/search?query=Daytona+coca-cola+straight+side&category=
Might I also add, for completeness' sake, that earlier (pre-1920) Western bottles (Mississippi onward), barring Texas, seem to have higher value than Northern (North-Eastern) bottles. With Texas, it has to be even earlier. 1890s and before.
McCoyNelson & SpiritBear thanks for the comments. SpiritBear, your observations are correct. There are quite a few Florida collectors plus thousands? of COCA COLA collectors. On top of that, almost every region of the country has collectors that only collect items from their particular area/region.