Featured Vintage Bottle Cap Choker

I got this vintage bottle cap choker in a thrift shop grab bag I purchased a couple of years ago. I think it's most likely from around 1950. I know the soda companies used a lot of famous people to endorse their products and was wondering if the image top was part of some promotional thing or just an image someone got and put on the bottle top from somewhere else and made the choker. The bottle top says on it "Nehi Royal Crown Bottling Co Stamps Ark". I did some research and could not find this Nehi Royal Crown bottle top with these images on them. Does anyone have any info on this or know any additional information? Thanks in advance for any info!

 

it 'is' true....blonds have more fun !!

 

This looks more like a home crafts project rather than anything factory produced. Will be surprised if you find any other bottle caps quite like these.

 

Thriftster, I've never seen any bottle caps like those. I remember the cork-lined caps from the 1950's-60's, but definitely not the pictures on top. Are those pictures "glued on", or are they original to the caps?

If they ARE original, I wonder if the guy at this site might be of any help:

https://www.antiqueadvertisingexpert.com/soda-collectibles/

His contact info is at the top of the page.

 

I would agree with you, Bronwen, but to my surprise, I've just come across a pair of Heineken Beer earrings. However, the same search revealed a number of DIY tutorials on bottle cap jewellery, old and new, so I'm with you on this one.

 

Looks like the caps were never on bottles.It could have been something an employee took or promotional piece.

 

Agree, except so do many of these:

https://www.google.com/search?q=neh...C-4szfAhVhqlkKHXuPA6UQsxgILg&biw=1920&bih=966

 

Ask the expert! Radar!!!

 

Thanks everyone for the replies and the links. SBSVC I think the pictures are a threaded layer type adhesive sticker, I don't see anywhere around the outside where glue appears. They seem to have been made specifically for the bottle top. I'm including a close up image of the image top below. Also, I have seen the bottle top earrings before and I actually have a few older ones but I have never seen a choker or necklace made with them.

 

Thrifster, yes, the pictures do look as if they've been applied on top. Someone's crafts project, then, with a touch of whimsy.

 

The bottle cap necklace.
Not a crafts project per se.
I have seen this kind of work from wholesalers. There are quite a few independent artisans who set up at gift shows who ply their wares to boutique stores rather than box stores. Not mass produced in the millions, but certainly produced in large numbers. Wouldn't surprise me at all to find that is what this is.

The key chain balls have been a popular chain for the last 10 years or so. Not a 1950s necklace.

 

Thanks for the info SBSVC and clutteredcloset49. I would have to agree, the more I look the more I see some of these items.

 

I feel like I've seen these (not with the faces though) at kind of funky upscale gift shops maybe 20 years ago or so. Cool idea to use the bottle caps.

I think a good thrift purchase, though. Here is a sold version at $55 (different caps). Be sure to click on the "original listing".

https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-FO...=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

But has anyone found any with the edge crimped the way the OP's is?

Just curious how that was done.

 

That's how they were made,modern caps are not as "tall" because of the thin plastic on the inside as opposed to the thicker cork liner.

 

I didn't explain that right -- I mean the upward curl that makes a moat around the center.

 

I guess there are companies now flattening bottle caps for hobbyist... https://www.bottlecapco.com/Vintage-Vintage-Inspired-Flattened-Bottle-Caps--RANDOM_p_527.html

 

Alrighty then, I would not have called that "flattened," but there they are!

 

Hi,
I remember my grandparents had bags of brass bottle caps. My gramps made dozens of bottles of home brewed root beer every year. I saved the bottling form but never saved the brass caps. Years later I wanted to make his root beer since I had his recipe but was unable to find the needed caps.. I gave up and sold the "capper" then when the Internet started I find lots of companies selling the caps.
Damn now I am getting thirsty for a root beer. Gramps root beer tasted like Dad's Old fashioned Root Beer.
greg

 

@gregsglass
When were you looking for caps? When we lived at Yorktown,Va. in the mid 70's a member of the local gem and mineral club brought homemade beer to a club picnic.He told us 2 local grocery stores carried every thing we would need.