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Collectors Guide to Tampa Embossed Soda Bottles 1880 to 1939, 2nd Edition 2025 by Ken Badgley

In the past few decades there has been growing interest in collecting antique Florida soda bottles.  This interest has produced some guidebooks for some of the most collectible regions of Florida: Pensacola, Jacksonville, Key West, and Southeast Florida.  These guidebooks pretty much cover the state’s largest cities.  Unfortunately, there has been little if not any information available for one of Florida's largest cities, Tampa.  After decades of collecting bottles from Tampa I figured if no one else was going to make a guide I might as well.  So here it is, a second edition of the first ever collectors guide to Tampa soda bottles:

 

178 color pages

Over 500 bottle photos

Every known Tampa embossed bottle

Every known Ybor City embossed bottle

216 total bottles (so far)

58 bottling companies

48 companies with embossed bottles

47 Hutchinson bottles

8 Baltimore Loop Seal bottles

15 straight sided Coca-Cola bottles

44 hobble skirt Coca-Cola bottles

The 1909 Tampa Pepsi:Cola bottle

Florida’s first & oldest brewery located in Ybor City

The GATOR hutch

 

Most soda pop brands were bottled in Tampa:

Coca-Cola, Pepsi:Cola, Bludwine, Shamrock, Chero-Cola, Budwine, Orange Squeeze, Cherry Blossoms, Hi-Roller, NuGrape, NuIcy, 50-50, King-Cola, King-Kole, Cola-Nip, Honey Boy, Orange Crush, Grapico, Try-Me, Tampania, Mit-Che, NeHi, Celo, Jumbo, Dr Pepper, 7up

 

Plus list of all known druggist medicine bottles,

seltzer bottles, milk bottles and spring water bottles

 

Detailed price guide showing eBay sales for the past 20 years for all bottles

 

Rarity grading  for all known bottle variants

 

Detailed spreadsheets listing details of bottle variants

 

Foldout bar chart showing dates of operation for 58 soda bottling companies documenting the year of Sanborn maps, city directories, gazetteers, trade magazines, local newspaper stories and advertisements

This book explains in detail the evolution of the soda water industry for a typical large growing city.  In this guide you can see the progression of the industry and how these glass bottles evolved from hand blown to corporate patented Art-deco style bottles in a 50 year span. 

 A must have for any antique bottle collector, not just  Florida collectors!

Sample pages for Florida Brewing Company

Sample pages for Towne's Bottling Works

Price: $50.00 including FREE SHIPPING to continental U.S. via USPS Ground Advantage, 12 x 10 x 1 and packaged very well.

Payment: PayPal to KenBadgleysWorld@gmail.com

EMail Inquiries: KenBadgleysWorld@gmail.com