Cola Button...

[davethebirdman]

Hi Guys

got my first Coke Button today..

It has two holes at the bottom and two holes at the top.
Was there some sort of a bracket or something that it was originally fixed to??

Dave

[Kilroy]

Pics? Oh, and congrats,  i know you've been  trying to land one for a while.

I think there was a cross bracket was mounted to the wall, then the button affixed to the bracket. My  Coke button  has the  same four holes., i'd love to know if any one is reproducing the bracket, not skilled enough to try  making my own.

In the interim, I  looped plastic coated wire through the top mounting holes, and  ahnging the button from  a nail.

[davethebirdman]

Managed to find a lump of old wood in the garage that did the trick... Its now up on the wall but I am
completely out of space. So have managed to sqeeze it up close to my computer for the time being until I have a change around...

It has taken me an age to get one but I'mhappy now (for the time being at least)

Thanks

Dave

[loman4ec]

Dave, I have the same button in my house in Singapore. Thanks to Joey! They are just the right size to put in a suitcase. Everyone always asks about the signs and no one here understands why I have Coke sighs in my house. Now I really need a machine!

[MoonDawg]

 Everyone always asks about the signs and no one here understands why I have Coke sighs in my house. Now I really need a machine!

        If the signs confuse them, the machine will really throw them off! 

[Pat Pixley]

Congrat's on the Coke Button Dave that is great that you got one,
and sad that you have run out of room so that means your going to
add on to your home  (just joking)

Josh ,each member will have to start sending you a peice of a machine
of your choice, once a month and by the end of the year you should be done.

[SIGNGUY]

Dave, nice looking button sign,
I'm assuming it's a 16" size?... looks like it... I like that size,, I think I have 8 16", 2 12" and one 36" currently in my collection... I like them when they are mounted on the pilasters signs.
There was a guy making reproduction brackets and mounts in Florida, but of course can't remember who or where he is any longer... if I find it I'll pass it along.
Here is an old photo of how I had some of mine displayed.. it's from the old house...and not a great photo but gives the idea of how they look with pilaster signs.

[loman4ec]

Pat That is a great Idea!  It will be like Radar on MASH. He sent home a jeep piece by peice. It is too bad that a small box shipped here from home is about $75 Because that might work

[SIGNGUY]

Or another MASH comparison... we could pack many small pieces in a crate and mark it Medical Supplies and ship it through the military, might take longer, but might not cost as much!!!   again , copied from MASH, when Hawkeye had Ribs from "Adams Ribs" in Chicago, shipped to them in Korea... told the clerk to mark it Medical supplies as they where to be used to practice on ...and the sauce was to be fake blood..
I love that show!

[loman4ec]

me too! we bought the DVD's for all 11 seasons. We have been watching every episode in order from the beginning. We are on the 11th season now and I don't know what we are going to do when they are done. My Dad and I love old TV shows. I grew up watching Andy Griffith with my Dad so we now have all of those DVD and we are going to start those when MASH is over. i just wish TV was as good now as it was then. Heck I am only 26 years old so I wasn't alive then but TV today is junk. What happened to good TV shows.

[RC kid]

It's crazy how expensive these Coke buttons have gotten over the years. I can understand why it would take so long for you to finally get one.
I remember my first Coca Cola sign. It was a 4 foot by 4 foot square 70's sign I found in a barn when I was 18 years old. I polished it up and hung it up on my bedroom wall. I eventually picked up a Cavalier CS-96 to go along with it. Later in life I was able to pick up a couple of fairly decent Buttons, the best one came from Belize (Central America) of all places. I was on a training mission in this small former British Colony and the first thing I noticed in town was the abundance of these appearingly old coke signs. After a couple of weeks I finally talked the owner of a small store out of the 3' diameter sign placed over his door. It is a painted version, not porcilen, and it is newer. But it has the correct shape of the original signs from the early days, as opposed to the reproductions coke was putting out a few years back, and if I were to place it on a building here in the states, even many of you would be fooled by it, thinking it to be from the fifties.
Yeah, I remember when I could pick up a really cool sign for a mere few dollars or so. Bought a larger porcelin Coke sled for ten dollars here in NC, but that was eight years ago. The last one I found for sale, the gentleman was asking $350.00 for it. I had to pass. Well, that's my story. Wow! I must be getting old.

[Chedki]

Pics? Oh, and congrats,  i know you've been  trying to land one for a while.

I think there was a cross bracket was mounted to the wall, then the button affixed to the bracket. My  Coke button  has the  same four holes., i'd love to know if any one is reproducing the bracket, not skilled enough to try  making my own.

In the interim, I  looped plastic coated wire through the top mounting holes, and  ahnging the button from  a nail.

This guy on eBay has a bracket for the Cola Cola button signs. It's only for the 16 inch size but at least you can see how it's made. It should be easy for anyone to build one for a larger button sign. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/COCA-COLA-BRACKETS-SET-FOR-PILASTER-SIGN-OR-BUTTON_W0QQitemZ310035326933QQihZ021QQcategoryZ38QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[davethebirdman]

I guess it would be nice to have the original bracket but that's a lot of money when I just went into my garage found a piece of old wood and adapted it slightly,

No one would know the difference....

Thanks for remembering me...

Dave

[collecture]

It's crazy how expensive these Coke buttons have gotten over the years. I can understand why it would take so long for you to finally get one.

I have been looking for some time and still haven't found a nice one at a decent price - everybody wants $$$$$

[RC kid]

I was in a small town this morning picking up some stainless steel hardware for my V-39 and I noticed a Coke button in the window of a small antique store. The owner wanted $300.00 for an extremely rusty and rough looking sign.

[Pat Pixley]

Was that Klinger that order told hawkeye and the rest about Adams Ribs
the one it Toledo . And I do go there to get rib's once a year for two racks
and they are the best   .

 So when do we start that crate for Josh and done forget the rib's .

[RC kid]

Here is a pic of the botton I picked up in Belize in the mid 1990's.

[RC kid]

And here is a photo of the first botton I purchased. I got it iin the late 1980's and I paid $30.00 for it, even with all of the damage it has. I later traded an exceelent botton for the Vendo 110 pictured here. Not a very good deal. The botton was worth more then the Vendo 110 then and probably still worth more today.

[loman4ec]

I would much rather have the 110. The coin mech in that large door 110 is probably worth more than the button.

[davethebirdman]

I'm with you Josh.....

I'd much rather have the machine too

[RC kid]

Ok...I withdraw the comment.