Baseball, apple pie and Coca-Cola: three great icons of American culture. With apologies to apple pie, rampant merchandising has long come to characterize baseball and Coca-Cola. Both were 19th ...
Our tribute to Tar Heel Traveler characters who have passed away continues with a man from Washington, NC, who died in October and spent years collecting everything Coke: posters, calendars, bottles, ...
Arguably, $7,000 is quite a bit to pay for a used and empty Coca-Cola bottle, but Des Moines County’s Jim Sonneville understands the passion — if not the economics — behind such an eye-watering price ...
I didn’t know anything about Coca-Cola collectibles until I went away to college and discovered that my roommate was a huge fan of kitschy Coca-Cola Americana. But I soon became a fan myself; this ...
WHAT: When does an old commercial Coca-Cola cooler soar to $18,450 at auction? When it is a salesman sample in A-1 original condition, measuring only 13 inches high by 10.5 inches wide by 8 inches ...
When visitors reach Leah Kortmeyer's door, they knock beside a Coca-Cola door ornament. Kortmeyer greets them in a Coca-Cola T-shirt, shorts and Coca-Cola sandals. She has kept the walls of her house ...
Q: Is there a source (catalog?) of people who collect Coca-Cola items? My penknife is so old it says, "Drink Coca-Cola in Bottles-5 cents." -- Myrna, Tucson, Ariz. A: That knife surely does seem as if ...
In the world of Coca-Cola memorabilia, the Schmidt family's collection is like the Smithsonian. The most treasured items are from the company's earliest days in the late 1800s, and some are so rare ...