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Recent
updates, additions and revisions to this website
A new section has been added to the Bottle & Glass Makers Markings
page dealing with articles on that subject posted on this website which were
produced by members of the
Bottle Research Group. Over the next few years many more
articles will be added to this compilation as "e-published" works.
Click the following link to go directly to that listing of articles:
Bottle Makers
Articles Bill Lockhart
(NMSU - Alamogordo) has recently revised all three of his "e-books" and they
are now loaded and available free on this website! These books, though
regional in nature, have broader application to the dating and typing of the
covered bottle types. Click on the following links to move to the
section of this website that allows one to download these files. (Of
note, the second and third listed books are also available as hard copy,
published works for those wishing such; information available at the same
links):
Other recent additions to this website:
Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Company 1916-1917 "The Packers' Handy Reference
Book" - The original of this entire period bottle makers catalog
has been scanned and posted to this website as a tool for bottle
identification or typology. This company specialized in various food
and condiment bottle production, but does have an assortment of other types.
American Glass Works, Ltd. and American Glass Works, Pittsburgh
- Bill Lockhart, Pete Schulz, Beau Schriever, Carol Serr and Bill
Lindsey with contributions by Jay Hawkins (from Bottles and Extras
Magazine, January-February 2012). This article outlines the
history - and related markings - of these two glass companies which used
very similar markings.
Will the Real AGCo. Please Stand up and the ACCo. Sit Down? - Bill
Lockhart and Harvey S. Teal with contributions by Tod von Mechow
(from Bottles & Extras Magazine, July-August 2011). Article about
the source of the AGCo. mark which is often mistakenly read as ACCo.
Reed & Co. and the Massillon Glass Works: R&Co. - MGW - M - Bill
Lockhart, Pete Schulz, Carol Serr and Bill Lindsey with contributions by Rob
Riese, Tod von Mechow, and David Whitten (from Bottles & Extras Magazine,
March-April 2011). Article on this interesting complex of companies
known for beer bottle production among other products.
The Adolphus Busch Glass Factories - Bill Lockhart, Pete Schulz,
Carol Serr and Bill Lindsey (from Bottles & Extras Magazine,
November-December 2010). Article on the famous brewers glass
factories.
Tracking the Hobble-Skirt Coca-Cola Bottle - Bill Lockhart and Bill
Porter (from Bottles & Extras Magazine, September-October 2010)
Article on the origin and history of this famously shaped bottle.
The author of this website has prepared a summary of the mouth-blown
bottle finishing methods section on the Bottle Finishes & Closures
page which is available as a downloadable and printable (pdf) article.
Click
The Finishing Touch: A Primer on Mouth-blown Bottle Finishing Methods to view/download this article (32 pages and full of illustrations).
This copyrighted article is pending publishing as
part of a future Society for Historical Archaeology book on bottle
and glass manufacturing but is being made available to users of this site as
a free download. Additional information continues to be added to the current
work-in-progress typology page -
Household Bottles (non-food related). The ink bottles section
is now complete with work being done on the bulk/master ink bottles section
as well as other sections on that page.
Recently a significant - actually monumental - work of
note was published for those interested in historic bottles. The book
was published in October 2011, by the Illinois State Archaeological
Survey and is entitled
Bottled in Illinois - Embossed Bottles and Bottled Products of Early
Illinois Merchants from Chicago to Cairo 1840-1880. Click
Bottled in Illinois to read more about this book and for how to
acquire it.
...and
lots of smaller additions, corrections, and the like always ongoing.
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