Remember these COKE Caps

[hcv123]

There is another amazing thread on here on these including a breakdown of more back variations than you realize! Don't have time to search now.

[frankbmd]

I wonder if anyone broke the bottles, so that their caps would be in unbent mint condition. Mom wouldn't have gone for that idea, but I'd bet you would have a unique collection today, perhaps worth enough to repurchase the soda you lost as a kid.

Footnote: The young fellas may not realize that there were no twist off caps back then.

[steve B]

I have a few that were never put on a bottle.

Steve B

[Volod]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

I wonder if anyone broke the bottles, so that their caps would be in unbent mint condition. Mom wouldn't have gone for that idea, but I'd bet you would have a unique collection today, perhaps worth enough to repurchase the soda you lost as a kid.

Footnote: The young fellas may not realize that there were no twist off caps back then.

As a kid, probably would not have thought of it, but you could take a flathead screwdriver to the caps and carefully lift the edges so as to remove them without bending the cap very much. But, if I wasn't concerned about the Hank Aaron rookie card in my bike spokes, a bent popbottle cap sure wouldn't have bothered me in 1954.