Most Expensive Coca-Cola Collectibles | Top 10
Coca-Cola is the brand that we grew up with as kids, teenagers, and now adults. The soda was present in our life with commercials, different types of bottles, huge campaigns, tons of soda and last but not least, a large variety of collectibles. And now it’s time to see the Most Expensive Coca-Cola Collectibles Top 10, a list of rare, limited and unique items.
Every kid remembers the first Coca-Cola bottle he opened, the sound of the cap when it was twisted off and the taste that makes it the best. After the first bottle, was the first commercial when we entered the world of Coca-Cola trough the eyes of visionary men and women who wanted us to like this drink. Before we even realized it, we were Coca-Cola fans, started to drink more, and to make the soft drink part of our life.
This is were the brand made something different for the people. They started making collectibles for the everyday drinking person to use as often as he wants. The company amazed the crowd with free bottles, drinking cups, glasses and the list can go on depending on the use of the item. Who thought that over the years these collectibles can be sold for hundreds, thousands or millions.
Yeah, you heard me right. The fans are going wild when they see the vintage, old or one of a kind collectible and will pay a fortune for it. So for the rich fans of Coca-Cola the next ten collectibles can be a dream come true or the next collectible to buy. So guys lets see the most expensive Coca-Cola collectibles. ->
10. 1930 Coca-Cola Neon and Clock Building Sign – 50.000$
The first item on this list is the biggest collectible item and was posted over one of the famous Coca-Cola bottling plant in Ohio.
Dated to the late 1930 the sign is the only one ever made from metal bezel and trim, hands and clock face. With some of the parts replaced over the years, this fine piece can be posted over any building, in it’s price the owner its including the installation.
The wow of it, is the embossed porcelain with extensive neon tubing and highlights specific from that period, that makes it glow even in the darkest night. For the price of 50.000$ this is the first expensive Coca-Cola collectible that you wealthy people out there can buy to decorate a building.
9. The 1898 Coca-Cola Calendar – 50.000$
Over a decade ago Coca-Cola was curing headaches. I’m not kidding you. This is the slogan from the 1898 Coca-Cola calendar.
The whole text present on the calendar was saying something like this “Coca-Cola. Delicious and Refreshing. Relieves Mental and Physical Exhaustion. Cures Headache. At All Soda Fountains 5c.” So what’s so special about this old calendar? In a perfect shape, it shows us the commercial design of the era, putting on the cover beautiful girls, flowers and the most important thing the Coca-Cola glass in the hand of the beautiful lady. This particular item is a rare, one of a kind calendar impossible to find on the market today, in a perfect condition estimated at the price of 30.000$. But it was sold in 2011 in an auction for the sum of 50.000$.
The next item is 114 years old! ->
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Coca Cola Tin Sidewalk Sign – 55.000$
After the release of Coca-Cola as the new refreshing drink of the society, advertising for it was supposed to be the main thing to think about when you have a great soda.
So like every shop or store, they put sidewalk signs showing the passing crowd where they can find the best drink on the market. So far so god but words on a sign weren’t sufficient and the ad needed a face to associate the product with.
For the early years of Coca-Cola a main figure present on signs, posters, commercials, was the model and actress Hilda Clark, whose name is still associated with the Coca-Cola brand. So this item stating “Drink. Delicious. Refreshing” was sold for the amount of 55.000$. The Coca-Cola Embossed tin sidewalk sign is dated to be from 1900 and has the famous Hilda Clark featured on it.
Carved in wood and worth as much as a brand new Porsche we will see item number 7! ->
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1913 ‘Girl on Hammock’ festoon – 80.000$
Mostly used as an ornament, the festoon is a piece of architecture carved in wood with different arrangements added to it.
So in that era the festoon was something to see hanging around from two ribbons, in our case a Coca-Cola ad. Why is this specific piece of collectible worth that much? Because it is probably the last of its kind, which brings something new to the festoon advertising art.
The beautiful girl, the glass of cola, the magazine beside her, the amazing detailing of these things and the new lithography style shows us everything nice about advertising in that era. Worth 80.000 $ the festoon is one of the most expesive Coca-Cola collectibles and a true work of art.
We use the next item to carry glasses. ->
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1897 ‘Victorian Girl’ tray – 95.000$
This item is considered by historians and collectors to be the first item made from this material and in this form and shape.
The tray you usually see in restaurants, used for carrying glasses, bottles and/or plates is made from tin and it’s lithographed with the fresh style of that time. We can see that on the tray the Coca-Cola company illustrated a Victorian style woman who has a Coca-Cola glass in her hand and wants to drink it while standing at the table. Stating around her is the Coca-Cola logo and the words “Refreshing!” and “Delicious!“.
For this special piece of art we observe a well preserved set of colors, the details for the face of the girl and everything around her, but also the tarnished gold and the red borders. This 117 years old piece of collectible art can be bought by the enthusiasts for the sum of 95.000$, that if the actual owner wants to sell the oldest tray in Coca-Cola History.
Can you imagine an almost 100 years soda dispenser? ->
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1915 Coca-Cola Globe Soda Dispenser – 100.000 $
For the Coca Cola enthusiastic this is a thing he must have in his house. If we usually see a water dispenser, or a soda dispenser, for the rich we brought the Coca-Cola 100 years old soda dispenser.
And the price for this collectible is over 100.000$ making it one of the most expensive Coca-Cola collectibles. For the price we stated earlier we find a unique piece, a soda dispenser made out of a marble base that has the main color as the drink, with a metal disposing system which ends like a soda cap. On top of it we find the main attraction the stained-glass globe with the Coca-Cola name white on black.
The article dated around the year 1915 is supposed to be manufactured in two available models, one standing and one hanging, the last one is actually not on display, auctioneers saying that they didn’t find that model yet.
How much can a Coca-Cola poster cost? Next! ->
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1896 Coca-Cola Cameo Paper Sign – 120.000 $
Before going in the top 3 most expensive Coca-Cola collectibles, we want to show you a beautiful piece of art, that hung in a mysterious theater from Times Square, New York, over a Coca-Cola fountain.
Stating an important logo of the Coca-Cola Company of that period, the sign was restored by professionals so that over the years the collector or the public which sees it will be amazed by the lithography of that era. Printed by a famous lithography company, The J. Ottmann Litho Co., this piece stands out from every corner.
It has the perfect measurements, giving the Coca-Cola enthusiastic a glance at the poster life before the year 1900. Perfectly restored to its initial state this masterpiece of the lithography beginnings, is considered by experts not only a collectible, but also an important historical piece. For the price on 120.000$ one of the most expensive Coca-Cola collectibles combines beauty, fine tastes for the art and lithography and the words that made everybody go and buy the soda: “Drink Coca-Cola. Delicious.Refreshing. Cures Headache.Relieves Exhaustion.
Number 3 matches any expensive chandelier! ->
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Coca-Cola Early Glass Globe – 140.000 $
The usual expensive chandelier has no meaning, besides the crystals or other luxury materials.
But now you can give your big house or loft a new meaning with the Early Glass Globe from Coca-Cola. It is a leaded glass globe made out of mosaic pieces which give it a vintage hand made look perfect for those who think modern expensive collectibles are destroying the meaning of the item. Made out of mosaic pieces it combines green, red, white and ivory.
The whole item has a unique vibe to it and it manages to stand out in a room not only by its 140.000$ price, but through the fact that is the third most expensive collectible from Coca-Cola.
This next item is a prototype. ->
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1915 Coca-Cola Contour Prototype Bottle – 240.000 $
This bottle is the most expensive in the world and has a fine story behind it. Being afraid that the fakers of the era will win money posing their drinks as Coca-Cola, a layer from the company launched a nationwide competition to create an unique bottle.
They were several specifications like: when felt in the dark everyone has to recognize it, even when it is in pieces. So The Root Glass Company made a prototype after the cocoa pod. The bottle didn’t make production because the form had the middle diameter larger that the base diameter, but still two pieces were made. Necessary alterations were made to the bottle, to be the one we all see today, but the original design made its proud owner stand out and give Coca-Cola something which will make a big statement in the future.
Estimated at the price of 240.000$ the bottle was the first of its kind to be given trademark status. So for the ones who really have the power to buy things, what do you do with the bottle? Drink from it, or place it in glass storage place where everyone can see it?
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Coca-Cola Soda Fountain – 4.5 million $
So we are down to number 1 of the most expensive Coca-Cola collectibles and we find the most desirable item in the history of collectibles being bid for by over 6000 people.
For most of us this could be a childhood dream come true, or a live act from an vintage commercial but for those who appreciate the item its a step back in the past. The 1893 Soda Fountain was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition of the same year in Chicago. The 21-foot soda fountain was made out of marble and alabaster bars with leaded glass lamps that work as dispensers. It was made by the Liquid Carbonic Company and for the past years it has been in the possession of the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia.
At a live auction the item was sold for the crazy amount of 4.5 million dollars to an anonymous buyer making it by far the most expensive Coca-Cola collectible. The price amazed everyone, even the former owner, but in the end the rich and wealthy can bring their dreams to reality even if the original estimated price was 125.000$. Now the owner has a soda fountain in his house. What is the next step? Let’s party like is 1893! What do you think?
Ending the Most Expensive Coca-Cola Collectibles | Top 10, we found some interesting and unique items with a huge historical importance and a price range for the rich and wealthy.
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