The Coca-Cola Company is searching for missing Norman Rockwell oil paintings.
The paintings were among six works depicting children that Rockwell did for Atlanta-based Coca-Cola's advertising campaigns of the late 1920s and early 1930s. The paintings are described by Coca-Cola's archivist as "seminal pieces" of the company's history.
The archivist says that in the era when a bottle of Coca-Cola only cost a nickel, Rockwell likely was paid at least two-thousand dollars a painting. Each could be worth more than 500-thousand dollars if sold at auction.
The paintings were among six works depicting children that Rockwell did for Atlanta-based Coca-Cola's advertising campaigns of the late 1920s and early 1930s. The paintings are described by Coca-Cola's archivist as "seminal pieces" of the company's history.
The archivist says that in the era when a bottle of Coca-Cola only cost a nickel, Rockwell likely was paid at least two-thousand dollars a painting. Each could be worth more than 500-thousand dollars if sold at auction.
