I’ve come to some ownership of several cases of empty Picketts beer bottles complete with labels and in the original boxes. Picketts was a brewery in the 70’s in Dubuque Iowa. You can find all I know about it in a simple google search
Dubuque Star Brewery - Wikipedia.
The bottles are dusty, and I was given them to wash and use for my beer making hobby, but I don’t want to ruin something that might be of some collectable value. THe required washing of the bottles will undoubtably ruin the labels.
Ebay doesn’t have anything currently, but I understand in 2006 a bottle was sold there…but I don’t know how much it went for. 1971 PICKETTS BEER 12 oz BOTTLE DUBUQUE IOWA | #19947987
Any opinions on what these bottles are worth? What I should do with them? I don’t have an ebay account. I could put them on Craigslist (in Dubuque or nearby) but I don’t have a clue what the value to put on them is. I think the intrinsic value of just a long neck bottle at the beer supply store is about $1