# Pickett's beer bottles--collectable?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 25, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picketts-beer-bottles-collectable/555012 "2010-09-25T15:49:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picketts-beer-bottles-collectable/555012/1 "2010-09-25T15:49:05Z")

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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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubuque_Star_Brewery).

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](http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1971-picketts-beer-12-oz-bottle-dubuque-iowa)

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

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**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picketts-beer-bottles-collectable/555012/2 "2010-09-27T13:36:28Z")

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the good old days when totally obscure and regionally relavent questions would get answers?

Yeah, I don’t either.

The fact that nobody cares, probably means the bottles aren’t worth anything.