Calling Pepsi collectors

[Mike Szadaj]

I picked up this opener at an estate sale today. I paid a buck for it. I was intrigued because it was not the typical Starr Co. semi circle shaped opener. I could not find one for sale on Ebay. Can anyone with knowledge of Pepsi collectibles give me any info? All the paint was gone, so I took a red paint pen and did the lettering.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-vaughan-cast-iron-wall-mount-1893388335

VINTAGE VAUGHAN CAST IRON WALL MOUNT DOUBLE DOT PEPSI COLA BOTTLE OPENER - RAREUP FOR AUCTION IS A VINTAGE VAUGHAN CAST IRON WALL MOUNT DOUBLE DOT PEPSI COLA BOTTLE OPENER - RARE.IT MEASURES APPROX. 4 7/8" LONG.IT IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR PEPSI COLLECTION.

another
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1940s-double-dot-pepsi-cola-wall-1975316219

 

[idrivemopar]

I work in estate sales and liquidation these days, and what you have there is a Vaughan double dot machine bottle opener. I believe its from the 30's and 40's and could be worth between 40 and 60 bucks to the right person.

 

[idrivemopar]

Here is one that sold for just under 45 bucks on ebay in May. Whether you sell it or keep it, thats a good find for a buck!


Pepsi Cola Double Dot Teardrop Vaughan Cast Iron Bottle Opener Old Original
See original listing




Condition:
Used

“Minor chip under bottle opening lip. Not ordinarily visible and does not affect operation. Bare ”

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Ended:
May 06, 2020 , 11:03PM

Price:
US $45.00



Shipping:
$8.25 Expedited Shipping

 

[Mike Szadaj]

Interesting. Thanks guys.

Mike

 

[idrivemopar]

Just an FYI, its called a double dot because of the two small dots between the i in pepsi and the c in cola. Look closely at your opener, those should be red as well.

 

[Mike Szadaj]

So did some other Pepsi logos not have the dots?

 

[idrivemopar]

The double dots disappeared from the logo around 1950, replaced with a dash.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I picked up this opener at an estate sale today. I paid a buck for it.

If it was a Coke opener, it would have been worth double that.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Don't clean it up might decrease the value.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Building my house dug up a 1935 Coke bottle made in Waterbury Ct.. There were other older bottles that came to the surface years earlier. Farmer must have used as a dump.

 

[Photon440]

There's a wealth of soda info on the antique-bottle site. https://www.antique-bottles.net/forums/sodas-embossed-paper-label-and-acls.15/

 

[WS23RT]

I have a 60s? Pepsi bottle that was never opened and appears to have the fluid injection nozzle in the bottle. I found it in the ground over 20 years ago. Don't know how it survived Iowa winters without freezing as it was near the surface.

 

[Photon440]

I have a 60s? Pepsi bottle that was never opened and appears to have the fluid injection nozzle in the bottle. I found it in the ground over 20 years ago. Don't know how it survived Iowa winters without freezing as it was near the surface.

How about a picture of that? The high sugar content probably helped soften the freezing effects inside the bottle, and the frozen ground around it likely helped it survive too.

 

[Bad B-rad]

Not a Pespi thing, but reading the above posts reminded me of this...........
My wife collects Coke stuff, along with the regular coke memorabilia, she has a few unopened old coke bottles, mostly NY Yankees editions, one 6 pack from the 75th anniversary of Yankees stadium, some 96/98 WS champ editions, stuff like that.
One day in 2015, I was given an un opened CAN of coke, a NY Yankees 2000 WS champs edition, for her collection. I brought it home and put it up with some of her other Coke items.
A day or two later, I enter the kitchen, and she says to me "this Coke tastes funny?"
At first I thought she was just joking with me, but no, she really opened and drank the 13-14+ year old can of soda, that was probably not refrigerated since it was purchased!!!
I guess because it was a CAN of Coke, and not a bottle, she thought it was a regular can of soda, that was placed with her coke items by mistake, she missed the huge blue 2000 WS champ Yankees label across the top of the can.
So she opened it and drank it, about 1/3 of it!!!!

(From above story you can guess I didn't marry her for her brains!)

 

[Photon440]

Almost universal agreement on the antique-bottle.net forum I posted above, that filled bottles are not any more valuable or desirable than empties. It's too easy to fill and recap a bottle so you can't prove it's original anyway.

 

[WS23RT]

How about a picture of that? The high sugar content probably helped soften the freezing effects inside the bottle, and the frozen ground around it likely helped it survive too.

Here's pics.