1990-S Coca-Cola Cover

WpgLwr I like that use them to sight in..get the old 45/70 Govt and have a little fun....my parents didnt have much of sentimental value or collectibles..nothing I wanted anyway..i was the oddball..reader, collector...

I have a 45-70 Springfield from 1873, I love the trap doors.

ebay is ok, I have bought a lot of trains and older camera equipment over the years. I don't bother with reserve items. I figure the person is only after top dollars so why bother.

I don't mess around that much, I simple bid once with my top offer and let it ride. Many times I win for under what I'm willing to pay and a few times my high bid is too low.

I only bid on ones that offer more than one way to pay. I keep away from paypal only auctions.

I haven't ever placed a bid for a stamp, no reason other than I have better sources for what I want at better prices.

Good Luck on the big Coke sell.

Mkfarm my 45/70 is the cavalry carbine replica that came out in 1973, I really wanted the fancy officers model but it was out of my price range..when I was growing up one of my school friends father had the 45/70 Springfield rifle behind the kitchen door in case a deer chanced by..i was always impressed with it...my friend always talked about the recoil of the 45/70...my little carbine has very little recoil....

Phil said...



I lived in Texas in the mid-1990's. Everybody's pick-up truck had a rifle rack in the back window. My friend picked me up to go to a Boy Scout meeting. He had three rifles in the back window, and a 12 gauge shotgun in between the front seats. He told me to reach under my seat (I was in the front passenger side). There was a loaded 9mm Remington semi-automatic handgun. I could have had my arse shot off!

I always check under the seat when I get into an American's car. You never know, eh!?

David

Mine has been in the family forever and is a conversion of some of the first trap doors. It doesn't kick at all, the gun is too heavy for that. The carbines are cool.

Out of curiosity what makes coke things collectible? I know the cover etc would be for me because of the stamp relationship theme.

In the old days people stayed at one company for years and years and it generated a lot of loyalty. Probably many career Coke employees are collectors of company memorabilia. Also Coke is a extremely popular product and has a very loyal customer base. Remember the outrage when the company tried to introduce "new" Coke? Probably a fair number of these loyal Coke fans are collectors too.

It's all about marketing. They market (always have)
Coke with lots of neat stuff. Bright colors, interesting
shapes, trinkets, artwork, etc... The stuff catches
the eye and is generally pleasant to look at. It
also tends to hark back to younger days and memories
of youth when you first saw 'said trinket'. This
sets up great marketing and 'stuff' that folks like
to collect. Make sense?

Example...
Coke wasn't at Shiloh, but they sure know how to
take advantage of any situation. They make bottles
to commemorate just about anything. Especially
sporting events. What Dad wouldn't buy his boy a
bottle commemorating the game the two of them went
to together? Then when the little boy grows up, he
just has to find another one of those bottles for
his shelf to bring back the memories.

Dad has HUNDREDS of commemorative bottles. Some
collectors have thousands.

I forgot about those things. I have a few Pittsburgh Steelers Coke Six packs along with Nascar six packs.

The Shiloh Bottle would go well with the Shiloh stamp.

Your Dads collection sounds awesome..thousands of bottles..next time I am in Barnes & Noble I am going to the antiques section and check out the Coca Cola collectibles books,,,i am a sparkling water person myself..dont care for the sugar in soft drinks and the diet drinks even less !!

Nah, Dad only has a few hundred. 400 maybe...
I know of some folks though that do have thousands.

I live in Canada's capital, Ottawa.

When Ottawa celebrated it's 150th anniversary, a few years ago, you could purchase glass bottles of Coke, around town, that had the city logo and 150th Anniversary dates. I sent a few to my buddy in Minot, NDak. He collects Coke memorabilia.

David

David let your friend know about ratio411..they may be able to do business

I like Pepsi...

ratio411, do not give in they know what you have probably and instead of trying to deal fair they are looking for a steal. May take time but a true collector will happen by.
On another note I saw a couple of old machines in back if I am correct. As a boy I remember going up to the towns gas station where there was a old coke machine. It had no fancy mechanics, just glass bottles that you had to yank out and another would roll into place. We always hit this place up because the owner only charged 5 cents a coke. But you had to drink the bottle there and leave it in the wooden coke crate so he would not start charging 10 cents.