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HISTORIC BOTTLES and
GLASS |
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BLM
Webpage for Bottle identification:
good info on dating, typing, glassmaking, colors, finishes (lips), bodies
and seams, bases, shapes and designs, identifying bottle fragments.
http://www.blm.gov/historic_bottles/index.htm |
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Bill
Hunt's
Medicine Bottle Glass Index:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/mwac/bottle_glass |
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Dating Your Old Bottles
by Digger O'Dell: This site
contains a lot of valuable information and one can also purchase his
series of books on bottles from this site.
http://www.bottlebooks.com/Dating%20Old%20Bottles/determining_the_age_of_old_bottl.htm
http://www.bottlebooks.com |
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Digger O'Dell's Bottle Basics:
basic data on bottles by a famous bottle
collector
http://www.bottlebooks.com/basics.htm |
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Identification of Clorox Bottles:
http://www.indiana.edu/~e472/cdf/histarch/bottles/clorox.html |
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Series
of Links from Archaeology Field Work: Architecture, Bottles, Ceramics:
http://www.archaeologyfieldwork.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=weblinks;action=display;num=1075735587
This
site needs a password to the
www.archaeologyfieldwork.com first. |
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Antique Soda Bottle and Shapes:
http://www.worldlynx.net/sodasandbeers/index.htm
http://www.worldlynx.net/sodasandbeers/bases.htm
http://www.worldlynx.net/sodasandbeers/sodahist.htm |
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The
American Collectors of Infant Feeders (Baby Bottles):
http://acif.org/ |
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Poison
and Misc.
Bottles (Rob's
Famous Poisons):
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/5772/rob.htm |
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Patent
Bottles:
http://www.cyberus.ca/~sjordan/pmmain.htm
http://www.cyberus.ca/~sjordan/census.htm |
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Glass Factory Marks on
Bottles: Gifts list of
alphanumeric bottle marks and their associated manufacturer.
Excellent. By David Whitten.
http://www.myinsulators.com/glass-factories/bottlemarks.html |
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Glass Factories that Manufactured Insulators :
http://www.myinsulators.com/glass-factories |
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Fruit
Jar and Insulators (one page with Company Backgrounds and some Links):
http://www.insulators.com/articles/fruitref.htm |
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Old Antique Bottles: old antique
and vintage manufactured and hand blown glass bottles used for milk,
drugs, bitters, pharmacy, embalming along with coffee and fruit jars.
They are for sale and there are no descriptions of them, but it is still a
useful resource.
http://www.antiquemystique.com/bottles.htm |
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High
Desert Bottle and Medicinal Tonic Website:
http://webpages.charter.net/blindsey8952/index.htm |
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Historic Glass House: Bottle
ID (Bottle
Collectors
and NonCollectors
Site)
http://www.antiquebottles-glass.com/ |
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Bottles and Bygones (Pictures good/Collecting):
http://members.tripod.com/~MikeSheridan/index.htm |
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Antique Bottle
Collectors
Haven:
This
website contains information on many different categories of antique
bottles, ranging from apothecary bottles to Coca cola bottles. It is used
mostly for pricing, but also has many pictures and a very helpful glossary
of marks and terminology to help date, place, and sometimes see how a
bottle was made.
http://www.antiquebottles.com/
http://www.antiquebottles.com/dating.html
http://www.antiquebottles.com/color |
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Dredging
Up the Past:
detailed description of bottles
found on a flood control project excavation from the Petaluma River.
http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/archaeology/bottles/ |
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Colony of Avalon:
17th and 18th century bottle seals
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/avalon/artifacts/bottleseals1.html |
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Torpedo Bottles:
http://www.geocities.com/torpedobottlecom/ |
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English Glass:
how to date English glass between
1876 and 1920.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/5772/odds.htm |
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Jamestown Wine
Bottle:
a wine bottle with a seal on it intact that was found in Jamestown.
http://www.historicjamestowne.org/featured_find/wine_bottle.php
Note this link does not work here but will work if typed into a browser as
URL. |
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Beer Bottle Collector:
with 6,874 bottles, some from 1800s; a few pictures; some dating text.
http://www.beerbottlecollector.com |
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Nick's Antique Glass
Collection: good for jars,
salt & pepper shakers, and jar lids.
http://glassjunkie.coolfreepages.com |
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Milk Bottles:
a few maker's marks; a few different kinds of milk bottles.
http://www.ncmilks.com |
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Bottle Den: historic soda
and mineral water bottles with a few “rare” photos
http://www.bottleden.com |
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Antique
Medicine & Tonic Bottles:
many different Medicine and Tonic bottles with
very good descriptions and lots of pictures!
http://glswrk-auction.com/064.htm
http://glswrk-auction.com/index.htm |
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FLASCHENJAGER:
site by a bottle enthusiast from
Virginia; has pictures of the bottles
he has excavated and gives detailed a
description.
http://hometown.aol.com/meechuta/bottles.html. |
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The Old
Bottleman:
A bottle
digger website who specializes in Victorian and
Edwardian bottles and jars. The most useful resource on the site is the
detailed page on dating bottles. http://www.oldbottleman.co.uk/. |
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Cape May County
Bottle Collectors: information on antique bottles
from Cape May County, NJ.
http://www.capemaycountybottles.com/. |
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Dumfries
Antique Bottle Collecting: a bottle collector
site in Dumfries, Scotland. There is a useful
link on dating Victorian bottles.
http://www.davehiddleston.com/. |
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Antique Bottles
of Baltimore: collection contains bottles from the 1790’s
onward. There are pictures of each of the bottles and detailed
descriptions with some analysis.
http://www.geocities.com/baltbottles/index.html. |
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The Canadian
Bottle and Stoneware Collector: bottle sales
site; has links to other sites; contain some interesting
information on primitive stoneware bottles.
http://www.cbandsc.com/. |
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Little Rhody
Bottle Club: promotes preservation of antique bottles and education
through research; bottles are from Rhode Island;
contains a list of RI companies found on the bottles.
http://www.littlerhodybottleclub.org/. |
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Aussie Bottle
Digger: This site contains information about antique bottles in
Australia. It has many links that deal with the different ways bottles
are dated (color, columns, etc.).
http://www.users.bigpond.com/oz-riley/. |
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Federation of
Historic Bottle Collectors: Has links to list of
bottle collectors.
http://www.fohbc.com/ |
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Medicine Bottles: a collector's web site with
some excellent photos and some text.
http://www.antiquebottles-glass.com/hgh_gifts/medbotl.html
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Tino's Bottle Page: bottle
collector site; some good photos and text.
http://www.nmt.edu/~tromero/bottle.html |
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Beer Miniature Bottles:
somewhat limited
information
http://www.bottlecollecting.com/clock/ja75_2.html
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About Old Bottles: provides good technical
information on types of bottles, mainly wine bottles.
http://www.madeirawineguide.com/madeira_v300/about_old_bottles/about_old_bottles.htm |
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Antique Medicine Bottle and Patent Medicines from
Frederick Ehrman Medical Library: has some good information and
pictures
http://library.med.nyu.edu/library/eresources/featuredcollections/medbottles/ |
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Bill's Bottle Dump: excellent
site with many sections and information on
various related topics, including information on
ceramic bottles, bottle manufacture, and bottle dating.
http://www.thebottledump.co.uk/index.htm |
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South African
Bottle
Site
(Identification and guides to
looting):
http://www.antiquebottles.co.za/ |
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Illinois
(Upper
SangamonBasin)
Pottery/Ceramics,
Glass, and Structural Materials:
http://virtual.parkland.edu/lstelle1/len/archguide/documents/arcguide.htm |
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The Museum of Beverage Containers and
Advertising: Painted Label Soda Bottles
http://www.gono.com/museum2003/paintedlbottles/paintedbottlehomepage.htm |
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Stoneware Bottles: some
historical manufacturing (part of a collector's website with many other
pages linked forward and backward at the bottom
http://home.planet.nl/~w.rijnbende/stonewar.htm |
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Collector's Page on
Dating Australian Bottles: has registry mark data.
http://www.sli.unimelb.edu.au/scronk/aabw/dating.htm |
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United
Kingdom
Bottle
Link
(Sheppey Bottles):
http://www.jjanman.freeserve.co.uk/ |
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Some Common Bottle Marks and Their Manufacturers:
USA and Foreign Bottles
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/traderz/marks.html |
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Identification of Artifacts from Historic
Site: A Bibliography. Colorado OHP:
www.coloradohistory-oahp.org/publications/pubs/1201.pdf |
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A Bibliography of Glass Artifacts, Including Bottles, Jars, and Flat
Glass compiled by William Hampton Adams (bill.adams@flinders.edu.au)
www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/glassbib.html |
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Perfume History Bottle
Ancient Times:
styles
and shapes of perfume bottles from ancient times
to modern days.
http://www.perfumes.com/eng/bottles.htm |
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Bottles on the
Border: The History and Bottles of the Soft Drink Industry in El Paso,
Texas, 1881-2000, by Bill Lockhart, 2001:
http://alamo.nmsu.edu/~lockhart/EPSodas/index.html --cover page
with access to contents
http://alamo.nmsu.edu/~lockhart/EPSodas/Chapter1-4/chap2.htm
--dating soda bottles
http://alamo.nmsu.edu/~lockhart/EPSodas/Append/appendd.htm
--Append. D-Manufacturer's Marks |
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19th Century Antique
Glass Bottles of the British Military:
very useful for
dating only these specific bottles.
http://members.shaw.ca/coffinisland/ |
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Knox Glass and the
Marks Toulouse Missed:
Article by Bill Lockhart. Clear drawings
of marks of some US manufacturer's.
http://www.fohbc.com/PDF_Files/KnoxGlassCo_Lockhart.pdf |
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Larry's Antique Bottle
Collector's Guide:
A site for beginning bottle collectors.
Has links to other web sites.
http://www.larrysantiques.com/bottle_collectors_guide.htm |
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Excavations at
Fort Yellowstone, Yellowstone NP: includes beer, gin and
medicine bottles. http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/dig.html |
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Late 18th c.
Artifacts from Phillipsburg, Norfolk Island: Examples Chinese export
porcelain, English wares, terra cotta; wine and spirit, gin, medicine
bottles; decanters & window glass
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/6559/scc125.html |
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Current Archaeological Research at Fort
Bragg:
http://www.bragg.army.mil/culturalresources/archeology.htm |
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Bottles from the Petaluma River
Excavations:
www.spn.usace.army.mil/ archaeology/bottles/ |
