| Why visit? |
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One of two quality bottle collecting magazines
in the UK. Also organisers of the annual Stratford bottle
collectors fair. |
One of two premier US bottle collecting magazine
sites. Also the home to Glassworks Auctions |
| The Magazine for Australian bottle collectors. |
The longest-running of the British magazines,
and excellent quality. Home of BBR Auctions and collectors
fairs.. |
| 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. |
Please let us know of other quality bottle
collecting magazine or newsletter websites. |
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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 hasn't updated this site for a few years
now, but it's packed with entertaining and interesting digging
stories even so. |
| 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! |
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| 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. |
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. |
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. |
| For anyone who would like to have a look at a
wider range of medical antiques (including quack devices) than
just bottles. |
| Four hundred years of history at a site in Virginia.
Over 200,000 artifacts excavated, including early glass and
stoneware |
| Finds from the wreck of a Dutch East Indiaman
in the Indian Ocean. |
| Another North American archaeological website,
this time in Newfoundland. Lots of researched 17th century English
wine bottles. |
| 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. |
| Some bottles in the Exeter Museum collection,
in SW England. |
| Another entire book available online. The history
of a 19th century patent medicine company and it's famous product. |
| Internet forum for those interested in early glass
mineral water bottles, with an extra section on medicine bottles
for cure-oholics! |
| A page with an account of the Marfleet ginger
beer manufacturers of Lincoln. |
| 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. |
| A site dedicated to local bottles and company
histories from north Norfolk. |
Mark Nightingales website, with an amazing
range of early glass and stoneware. |
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. |
