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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 144543, member: 68&quot;]Holy cow!!!&nbsp; I had no idea milk bottle caps were bringing this kind of money on ebay.&nbsp; I have quite a few of these that I used to use as trading stock with other collectors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1963 there was a widespread promotion in this area in the area schools.&nbsp; In the 12 oz bottles they would use a special cap with the presidents on them and everyone was trying to assemble a complete set.&nbsp; Unfortunately most of them were impossible to locate and it seemed only the Kennedy and Lincolns caps were easily found. (Washington and Adams too).&nbsp; Years later a friend gave me a complete set of them.&nbsp; A few years back I learned that these went for up to $10 per cap but I&#039;d lost track of the set.&nbsp; Ironically I had started a milk bottle cap collection before this and had only two of these.&nbsp; You guessed it; Kennedy and Lincoln.&nbsp; Fortunately the set turned up and it was added to the collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>The bottles were made of glass and had a slight lip about 1/3&quot; down inside the bottle.&nbsp; The cap was just a 1 3/4&quot; disc with a little cutout in the center and a staple (usually) under this tab so you could lift it up to remove the cap.&nbsp; Caps usually had the list of ingredients and the name of the dairy but sometimes they were &quot;stock&quot; tokens which just said what was in the bottle.&nbsp; Bottles were specially made only for the biggest dairys but most used their own caps.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There was a second kind of cap which fit over the entire top of the bottle.&nbsp; These usually contained the disc as mentioned above inside the top of the cap (it was a two-piece cap).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My experience as a collector is that the caps tend to be pretty common or quite scarce.&nbsp; If one or two people saved them they&#039;re common.&nbsp; If the dairy had excess supply that was saved then they&#039;re also common.&nbsp; Otherwise they are pretty scarce.&nbsp; Paper objects like this don&#039;t survive in the ground and they weren&#039;t very highly valued.&nbsp; If you&#039;re interested in this sort of thing your best bet is to find a large batch that are very cheap and trade them with other collectors.&nbsp; It would be prohibitively expensive to try to assemble a collection at a few dollars a piece and many of these are so common it&#039;s hard to believe they can ever be enough collectors to absorb them all.&nbsp; Figure there are 5,000 to 10,000 of the more common ones and there are probably many with no surviving examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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