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Are there really $1000+ soda cans? I doubt it, for reasons that there are not really that many big-dollar collectors in the hobby. You have maybe 6-10 who are willing to pay that kind of money for that special can. I wonder if those 6-10 top collectors bid against each other? Or do they take turns to keep prices low? I dont think the demand is greater than the supply and new one-of-a-kinds are being found every month and some aren't one-ofs anymore too.


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I'll bet there is lots of people willing to pay $1,000 or much more for a Coke cone top, 16 oz'er or Quart, I would. LEON.
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I watched a guy pay 1700.00 for a Cliquot Club cone at the big soda pop auction in Kingsland Indiana about 3-4 years ago. There were over 10,000 soda cans for sale and various memorabilia auctioned off that day. The old lady collected soda, and her husband collected beer cans. They had a pole barn decked out for displaying and storing their collections. They were justa few miles from my house and did not know it until they advertised the auction. I did pick up a few flats of soda cones and flats that I turned a nice profit on via ebay. can't remember the couples name anymore!
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The Coke Gallon cone tops are a speical breed - of course they'll bring big bucks. The Pabst Root Beer Snap Cap is another one I think would sell for a lot as well, because Pabst collectors would go after it too. I see a lot of cans in the soda pop book that have a value of $300-1000+ but is anyone really paying these prices??? My opinion is that many of the soda cans fall in the same rareity range of so-so, but have high dollar price - not sure why? A dumper of a 1000+ soda pop can will bring about $10 where as a dumper of a $1000+ beer can could easily be as high as several hundred dollars! Supply and demand is key and there's just not the demand in the soda world for all the high dollar ($300+) cans listed in the book. The soda pop can book is a great work of art, but too many misleading & inflated prices.
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Wow - thanks... Can I send you shopping for cans for me? I have several $1000+ cans in my collection and have sold quite a few more.
Not sure I appreciate the work of art comment, but to each his own.
By the way, that $1700 Clicquot Club cone is a very nice on-grade low profile GA that is on my shelf... Her name was Annie Ewell. A very nice and well versed soda collector.
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I love how the guys who complain about the snobby shiney can guys are the first to be snobby about another hobby, such as soda can collecting. :smt017
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My opinion is that many of the soda cans fall in the same rareity range of so-so, but have high dollar price - not sure why?
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How many soda can collectors did you know in 1976? I know that I was the only one of my friends that saved soda cans. How many soda cans do you thing Rusty-Bunchers have unearthed and dis-regarded because "nobody cares about soda cans?" There are a lot of soda cans that have fewer known than a $15,000 Log Cabin Beer can. There may be fewer soda collectors, but there are A LOT less quality soda CANS availble for them to collect.

Using the ridicously overpriced Log Cabin as an example, even if you devalued an equally rare and desirable soda can by 90% it would still pull in $1,500.

Cans - Period, have gone to absurd prices.

Oh, and by the way Ed, I have found that it only takes 2 to raise the price to the stratosphere. I should know, I have both won and lost some of them.
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ronsmall wrote:I love how the guys who complain about the snobby shiney can guys are the first to be snobby about another hobby, such as soda can collecting. :smt017
Not at all, I just dont think the prices in the book aren't quite right - too high in many cases just for the fact that there are too few collectors who would pay that sort of money in the first place. Of course there are "to-die-for" soda cans that will bring the big money. But soda dumpers have little or no value. Beer Can book prices are way off too - the USBC I, you can double or triple the price on the rare stuff; USBC II - forgot about it - many rare cans are valued at $15-40 when you couldn't even purchase one even if you had $500 on the table.

dtsoc wrote:Not sure I appreciate the work of art comment, but to each his own.
It was a compliment..... much over due book for the hobby.


BTW - wasn't there a conspricy (for lack of a better word) when Matt M found a cache of unique soda cans, not to pay top dollar and let him rot with them? Maybe I dont have all the facts - but just throwing this out there for discussion.....
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Dave,

Were you at the auction, or did you aquire the can elswhere? It was a really nice one. I went over to bid on her Pepsi cone top but ended up with some Cue quarts and various flats. That was the most pop cans I ever saw amassed in one collection. I liked the different rooms she had with different brands.

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Hi Ron,
I was there for it. Actually went out the day before. Spent the entire day looking at cans. The only real catch was the groups they had put them in the day before were changed when they started selling the lots making it almost impossible to keep track of cans. It was probably the largest collection ever amassed!
We literally brought home a car full of cans - had to leave several hundred to another collector because they wouldn't fit in the car!
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Does anyone have pictures of the lady's collection before it was sold? Would love to see some shots if anyone has any.
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dtsoc wrote:Hi Ron,
We literally brought home a car full of cans - had to leave several hundred to another collector because they wouldn't fit in the car!
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I believe I filled my van with many of those cans! Wasn't it interesting that the first few lots bidding was tame, that is people didn't seem to bid against someone they knew, then all hell broke loose. Can't complain though as I still went home with most of the cans I wanted.

Somewhere I have the original flyer for the auction which had a few pictures. I will see if I can find it and post the photos.
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My two cents worth

"BTW - wasn't there a conspricy (for lack of a better word) when Matt M found a cache of unique soda cans, not to pay top dollar and let him rot with them? Maybe I dont have all the facts - but just throwing this out there for discussion....."

My info says that he ended getting top dollar for the cans...well in excess of "book value". I guess all the conspirators didn't get the message :smile:



"Are there really $1000+ soda cans? I doubt it, for reasons that there are not really that many big-dollar collectors in the hobby."

I am aware of at least two dozen soda cans that sold for over $1,000 in 2008.
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While it isn't as common for a soda can to bring $1000 as it is for a beer can it does happen. I personally sold 2 slightly off grade cone top cans on ebay for $700+ and $500+ so even the right off grade can willl bring a respectible sum.
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Brent Alexander wrote:
"BTW - wasn't there a conspricy (for lack of a better word) when Matt M found a cache of unique soda cans, not to pay top dollar and let him rot with them? Maybe I dont have all the facts - but just throwing this out there for discussion....."

My info says that he ended getting top dollar for the cans...well in excess of "book value". I guess all the conspirators didn't get the message :smile:

Hmmm....my source says a big-time beer can collector paid good money for them (Matt's soda cans) - everytime he list one on ebay with a reserve - it dosn't get much higher than $150 and dosnt sell.....

So, even if some of them are unique, they are not worth $1000+ ? How come they dont sell? Trying to keep prices low? ;)
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I have sold several 1000.+ soda cans , Most of the good stuff never hits ebay or the public eye.
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budbock (or anybody) let me know if you come across any Faygo or Mavis soda cans from Detroit ;) LEON.
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Funny how at least 3 of us were all there bidding, and didnt know it! Whats even worse is the farm is within 3 miles from my house, and I never knew that one of the largest if not the largest soda collection was sitting over there. A friend of mine was her neighbor too. I need to put the word out I guess of my collecting interests.
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Ron - I knew Dave and close to 10 others, most of them from the NPCC. Fortunately for the collectors (unfortunately for Ann, but I think she still did pretty well dollar wise) in attendance several of the big collectors and dealers didn't hear about the auction. In fact I found out a week or two before it and had to scramble to attend. Still not sure who sent me the anonymous email informing me about a rumored soda can auction in Indiana. I then emailed a few collectors to see if they knew about it.

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Dave - What was more fun the auction or being allowed to go through and purchase cans at the Beverage Can Museum? I would pick the Museum trip except it was very hot up in the attic so not sure.

this is the last page of the auction flier page 8 was just the mailing page with no photos.
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I see they had the first 2 Faygo flats in that collection/auction. Anybody know what they sold for? I'm guessing $1,000+? :smt017 Let me know, curious. LEON.
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Sorry I don't remember but I do recall someone was writing down what things went for but not sure who it was.
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I liked soda cans for awhile(still do) had a Plee-zing Root Beer was one of the only couple known cans got it off ebay in bunch of cans for a song traded it for Drewrys Bock (first one) it is amazing the differance from Beer to Soda one day soda will rise don't know if it will catch Beer but as long as its fun that is whole point of it all.
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To put it into Perspective, You gotta one of a kind Class beer can that gets around $50k probably & tops on a one of a kind soda would probably be $5k. Big Differance. LEON.
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