Sam Evans' Quick Reference,
Georgia Coca-Cola Bottle Checklist
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This checklist was updated May 2012

 

 

A complete list of the Georgia cities & towns
known to have Coke bottles with their names
(HOW TO READ THE CHECKLIST)

01. Abbeville - 3+ (Values)

02. Albany - 1 (Values)

03. Alma - 3 (Values)

04. Americus - (Values)

05. Arlington - (Values)

06. Ashburn - 3 (Values)

07. Athens - 1 (Values, Coke & More)

08. Atlanta - 1 (Values)

09. Augusta - 1 (Values)

10. Bainbridge - (Values)

11. Ball Ground - (Values)

12. Barnesville - (Values)

13. Baxley - (Values)

14. Blakely - 3 (Values)

15. Brunswick - 1+ (Values)

16. Buena Vista - 3+ (Values)

17. Cairo - 3 (Values)

18. Carrollton - (Values)

19. Cartersville - (Values)

20. Cedartown - (Values)

21. Chipley (Pine Mountain) - 3+ (Values)

22. Claxton - 1+ (Valuse)

23. Cochran - 3+ (Values)

24. Columbus - 1 (Values)

?? Commerce - (not confirmed, but possible)

25. Conyers - (Values) (Buy)

26. Cordele - (Values)

27. Cornelia - (Values)

28. Cuthbert - 1+ (Values)

29. Dalton - (Values)

30. Darien - 3 (Values)

31. Dawson - 3 (Values)

Dixie (Atlanta) - 1++ (Values)
Dixie Coca-Cola Company Bottling Plant
Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta GA

32. Douglas - (Values)

33. Dublin - 1+ (Values)

34. Eastman - (Values)

35. Elberton - (Values)

36. Fairburn - 3 (Values)

37. Fitzgerald - (Values)

>> Folkston - (Info)

38. Fort Valley - (Values)

??  Fort Gaines - (not confirmed, but possible)

39. Franklin - 3 (Values)

40. Gainesville - (Values)

?? Greensboro - (not confirmed, but possible)

41. Griffin - 1 (Values)

42. Hartwell - 1 (Values) (Buy)

43. Hawkinsville - (Values)

44. Helena - (Values)

45. Hinesville - (Values)

46. Jackson - (Values)

??  Jesup - (not confirmed, but possible)

47. Kingsland - 3 (Values)

48. LaFayette - (Values)

49. LaGrange - 1+ (Values)

50. Lawrenceville - 3 (Values)

51. Lincolnton - 3 (Values)

52. Macon - 1 (Values)

>> Madison - NONE - (More)

53. Manchester - 1+ (Values)

54. Marietta - (Values)

?? Marion - (not confirmed, but possible)

55. McRae - (Values) (Buy)

56. Milledgeville - 1 (Values)

57. Monroe - (Values)

58. Monticello - (Values)

59. Moultrie - (Values)

??  Nashville - (not confirmed, but possible)

60. Newnan - (Values)

61. Pelham - (Values)

62. Richland - (Values) (Buy)

63. Rochelle - 3 (Values)

64. Rome - 1 (Values)

65. Royston - 3 (Values)

66. Sandersville - 1+ (Values)

67. Savannah - 1 (Values)

68. Senoia - 3 (Values)

69. Statesboro - (Values)

70. Swainsboro - (Values)

71. Sylvania - (Values)

72. Sylvester - 3 (Values)

73. Thomaston - (Values)

74. Thomasville - (Values)

75. Thomson - (Values)

76. Tifton - 1+ (Values)

77. Valdosta - 1+ (Values)

78. Vidalia - 1++ (Values)

79. Vienna - (Values)

80. Villa Rica - 2 (Values)

81. Washington - (Values)

82. Waycross - 1 (Values)

83. Waynesboro - 1++ (Values)

84. West Point - (Values)

??  Willacoochee - (not confirmed, but possible)

85. Woodbury - 3 (Values)

86. Wrens (Values)

Abbeville, Buena Vista, Cochran, Fairburn, Royston, and Woodbury are not known to have had Contour Coca-Cola bottles.  There are 80 Georgia towns known to have had Contour bottles.  There are 73 Georgia towns known to have Straight Sided Coca-Cola script bottles.  Others, like Alma, had a Straight Sided Coca-Cola bottle, but with block lettering, which would have contained soda water or flavored beverage, not Coke.  Also, there was a Straight Sided Coca-Cola Flint Rock bottle from Cairo.
 
 

Coca-Cola 75th Anniversary Bottles

01. Atlanta 1975 - 1
02. Atlanta small label 1975 - 3
03. Columbus (Federal) 1976 - 1+
04. Rome 1976 - 1+
05. Augusta 1977 - 1
06. Macon 1977 - 1++
07. Savannah 1977 - 1+
08. Athens 1978 - 1++
09. Brunswick 1978 - 1+
10. Americus 1980 - 1+
11. Hartwell 1980 - 1+
12. Manchester 1980 - 1++
13. McRae 1980 - 1+
14. Waycross 1981 - 1+
15. Cordele 1982 - 1
They all have Atlanta on the front of the bottle.  The actual town name is on the back.
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Coca-Cola 100th Anniversary 8 oz Contour Bottles

01. Atlanta 1900-2000 - 1
02. Brunswick 1903-2003 - 1
03. McRae 1905-2005 - 1+
04. Savannah 1902-2002 - 1
05. Statesboro 1906-2006 - 1+
06. Valdosta 1897-1997 - 1+
07. Waycross 1905-2005 - 1+
08. ?? I do not know if there are others

_{Contour & SS Coca-Cola ratings}

The Dixie Rating System

-1 = Not collectible
 1 = Usually very easy to find and very common
 1+ = Usually easy to find, but not very common
 1++ = Usually not easy to find, but available
 2 = Usually a little difficult to find and scarce
 2+ = Usually difficult to find and very scarce
 3 = Usually extremely difficult to find and rare
 3+ Extremely difficult to find and very rare

If the numerical rating (1, 2, 3) does not appear after the town name, you must click on (Values) to see it.
 

ALERTS !

STRAIGHT SIDED COCA-COLA BOTTLES
The values on this checklist are close to those in the Georgia Crown Top book, however, I feel that the SS values in the book are too high on most SS Coke bottles.and too low on other bottles such as Flint Rock, Soda Water, Coca-Cola Flavors, and Bottling Works.

HOBBLESKIRT / CONTOUR BOTTLES
If you are using the old Porter Checklist, make the following corrections:

1. Commerce GA Coke is NOT known to exist
2. Marion GA Coke is NOT known to exist
3. Lawrenceville GA Coke Pat D DOES exist
4. Ashburn GA Coke 1923 DOES exist
5. Washington GA Coke 6 1/2 OZ Contour (Hobbleskirt) is not S, it is a very common bottle 
6. Cordele 1923 is harder to find than Cordele 1915
7. Wrens 6 1/2 FL OZ does exist
8. Athens GA DEC 25 1923 is VERY HARD TO FIND
 
 

About Prices

For Your Information; what a bottle brings on Ebay is not the value of that bottle.  The value of the bottle is determined by many factors, including scarcity.  Also, there are many Ebay sellers who operate shill accounts just to run up the auction price of a bottle or other item.  I have seen $5. bottles sell for hundreds of dollars on Ebay because of unscrupulous seller practices.  There are also Ebay members who delight in the sick pleasure of running a bottle way up above it's actual value.  The auction price on Ebay has NO actual relationship to the bottle's real value.  Auction prices have to be compared to other factors such as scarcity, condition, nationwide prices, retail prices, and consistency over time.  For example, if a common Athens Pat D Coke bottle brings $150. on Ebay, that does not mean that all other similar bottles are now worth the same.  It simply means that either a shill bid up the price, or someone paid too much.  Do your research before you buy.

Be very careful, and ask the Ebay seller a lot of questions when you see words like "RARE", "EARLY RARE",  "LENGENDARY"(especially legendary), and other similar adjectives in the title or description.  There are very rarely genuinely rare bottles on Ebay.  Also, often times what the seller thinks is NICE!!! may actually be a damaged bottle.  So, ask a lot of questions when you see these types of words used on Ebay.  Also be careful if the description says that the seller is "too busy" to give a detailed description of the bottle.  You should be too busy to buy it if the seller is too busy to tell you what it looks like.  Do your research if you are an Ebay buyer.

Also, dark purple Coke bottles have NO value.  Purple Coke bottles are worthless.  Bottles are colored purple by sellers who then claim that the bottles are "EARLY RARE", but the color is really fake.  Also, if the ad reads "Antique", make sure that the bottle really is at least 100 years old or it is not an antique.

Coca-Cola did not ever produce a purple bottle.  Beware when the Ebay title reads "RARE" or "EARLY RARE".  Never buy a purple Coke bottle in an Antique store either..

Fake brown and amber Coke bottles are plentiful on Ebay and in Antique stores as well.  These so-called amber bottles are fake too.  Coca-Cola did not have an amber or brown contour bottle.  So-called amber / brown Contour Coke bottles are also colorized in an attempt to enhance the value.  Amber contour(hobbleskirt) and brown Coke bottles are worthless.  The ONLY Georgia Coke bottles that were amber are the 3 variations of Dalton, GA Straight Sided bottles.  There are no others that are genuine.

Unless you do the research, know your bottles well, and know the seller, you stand a greater than fifty fifty chance of being cheated on Ebay.  At least half of the Georgia bottles on Ebay at any given time are misrepresented, and a number of the sellers operate shill accounts to inflate the prices.  There are fewer honest sellers on Ebay than there are dishonest sellers.  Be careful when you see sellers in Valdosta, Forsyth, and Milledgeville.  Some online auction regulars that have tried to get one over on me use these locations.  There are only about 4 regular sellers(in GA) on Ebay that I trust to represent their bottles accurately.

One last thing to watch out for on Ebay.  There is a seller in Alabama that is almost always on Ebay with numerous bottles that he claims are "professionally repaired".  I will not say whether he intentionally misrepresents the bottles or not, because I do not know.  However, I will say that these GA bottles, usually from Rome, Villa Rica, and that area, are NOT professionally repaired.  Perhaps this is the best that he can do, but he is not a professional and the bottles are worthless in most cases.  They look really bad and the pieces do not match.  He colors them purple to make the glass color uniform, but they still look really bad, so be careful.  There are others that really do very good repairs, most are in south Georgia.  Their bottles are done quite well and look great.