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MAGAZINES / NEWSLETTERS:

Antique Bottle Collector - UK

One of two quality bottle collecting magazines in the UK. Also organisers of the annual Stratford bottle collectors fair.

Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Magazine (US)

One of two premier US bottle collecting magazine sites. Also the home to Glassworks Auctions
Australian Bottle & Collectibles Review The Magazine for Australian bottle collectors.

BBR Magazine

The longest-running of the British magazines, and excellent quality. Home of BBR Auctions and collectors fairs..
The Potomac Pontil The Potomac Pontil is the newsletter of the Potomac Bottle Collectors in Washington DC, and is probably the best club newsletter we've so far come across. Excellent digging stories, but also well researched articles and other useful info.

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Please let us know of other quality bottle collecting magazine or newsletter websites.
DIGGING SITES / STORIES:
 
Eddies Privy Page Eddies Braters privy digging website. Privy digging doesn't happen in the UK (for some reason our privies don't seem to have bottles in them), but there are lots of intersting digging stories on this website.

Scott's Privy Page

Scott hasn't updated this site for a few years now, but it's packed with entertaining and interesting digging stories even so.
MORE? Other sites with good digging stories and well researched articles? Please let us know. There's an obvious shortage of UK sites in this list!
OTHER SITES:
 
Historic Glass Bottle ID and information By a huge margin the most informative antique bottles website on the internet. BUT it is specifically for American bottles! In some ways some US bottles are similar to British & European bottles, but in others (such as the development of glass technology in the late 19th century) they are quite different. Although it is a good starting point, reliance on this site for ID and dating of British bottles is not a good idea.
Codds Stuff Mark Potten's website providing history and background to Hiram Codd's famous fizzy drinks bottle, and the dozens, or hundreds, of competitors in the second half of the 19th century and first part of the 20th. If you want to know something about internal stoppered antique pop bottles, this is the place.
The Toadstool Millionaires Go here to download, free, the entire text of one of the best histories of patent medicines and quackery ever written: The Toadstool Millionaires by James Harvey Young. It's an oldie, but a goodie. Another US - oriented publication, but great stuff and has not been bettered. Very useful for UK collectors.
Collect Medical Antiques For anyone who would like to have a look at a wider range of medical antiques (including quack devices) than just bottles.
The Flowerdew Hundred Four hundred years of history at a site in Virginia. Over 200,000 artifacts excavated, including early glass and stoneware
The Avondster Finds from the wreck of a Dutch East Indiaman in the Indian Ocean.
Ferryland bottle seals Another North American archaeological website, this time in Newfoundland. Lots of researched 17th century English wine bottles.

Museum of London glass & Ceramics

An online catalogue of the Museum of London collection of glass and ceramics. Enough to make most collectors go a bit weak at the knees.
Exeter Museum bottles Some bottles in the Exeter Museum collection, in SW England.
History of Morses Indian Root Pills Another entire book available online. The history of a 19th century patent medicine company and its famous product.
Coddoholics bottle forum Internet forum for those interested in early glass mineral water bottles, with an extra section on medicine bottles for cure-oholics!
Marfleet ginger beers A page with an account of the Marfleet ginger beer manufacturers of Lincoln.
Makers marks on glass bottles An American site listing hundreds of glass makers marks found on antique bottles. There is no equivalent source of information about British glass makers, but this site does list some marks found on bottles in the UK.
North Norfolk antique bottles A site dedicated to local bottles and company histories from north Norfolk.
Early Glass Collector Mark Nightingale's website, with an amazing range of early glass and stoneware.

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Please nominate quality archaeology, history, bottle, and other relevant websites for us to include here. To keep this list down to a manageable size priority will be given to sites not already widely listed on bottle-related websites, at least to start with.
FRIENDS OF DIGGERS' DIARY  
The Music Goes Around, York On-line vinyl record shop;  records bought and sold
Turnerround, York Interesting and collectable items for sale

 

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