Historic Bottle Website "Map"

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The following is a listing or "map" of all the main subject pages and connected sub-pages found within this Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website.  The main subject pages are in bold capital letters and the sub-pages are listed underneath the related main page title in smaller, non-bold lettering.  (Recent significant updates, additions and revisions to the site are noted further down the page.)

HOME PAGE

DATING PAGE (including beginning of Bottle Dating Key)
    Bottle Dating Key - Mouth-blown bottles
    Bottle Dating Key - Machine-made bottles
    Dating Examples

BOTTLE TYPING/DIAGNOSTIC SHAPES PAGE
    Liquor/Spirits Bottles
    Wine & Champagne Bottles
    Beer & Ale Bottles
    Soda & Mineral Water Bottles
    Medicinal/Chemical/Druggist Bottles
    Food Bottles & Canning Jars
    Household Bottles (non-food related)
    Miscellaneous & Foreign Bottles
    Labeled Bottles
    Illinois Glass Co. 1906 bottle catalog
    Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Co. 1916-17 catalog
    Illinois Glass Co. 1920 bottle catalog
    Illinois Glass Co. 1926 bottle catalog

GLASSMAKING & GLASSMAKERS PAGE
    Glassmakers Marks

BOTTLE/GLASS COLORS PAGE

BOTTLE BODY CHARACTERISTICS & MOLD SEAMS PAGE

BOTTLE FINISHES & CLOSURES PAGE - Part I
   Part II: Types or Styles of Finishes - Page 1
   Part II: Types or Styles of Finishes - Page 2
   Part II: Types or Styles of Finishes - Page 3
   Part III: Types of Bottle Closures

BOTTLE BASES PAGE
   Pontil Marks or Scars

BOTTLE FRAGMENT IDENTIFICATION PAGE

BOTTLE GLOSSARY PAGE
    Bottle Morphology

REFERENCE SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE

HISTORIC BOTTLE RELATED LINKS PAGE

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ'S) PAGE
    Historic Bottle Website "Map" (this page)

ABOUT THIS SITE - Caveats, Acknowledgements & Miscellaneous PAGE

SITE USER TIPS
   Metric Conversion Table


Recent updates, additions and revisions to this website

Tintype of a man and his Drake's Plantation Bitters - ca. 1865-1875.

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 GroupOver 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.
 

Group of historic bottles dating between 1840 and 1930.


SEARCHING THIS WEBSITE:  To do a word/phrase search of this website one must use the "Search SHA" boxes found on many of the main SHA web pages, including the Research Resources page (upper right side of that page) which links to this site.  The Historic Bottle Website (HBW) has no internal search mechanism so be aware that when running a search one will also get non-HBW response links to other portions of the SHA site.

1/19/12


This website created and managed by:
Bill Lindsey
Bureau of Land Management (retired) -
Klamath Falls, Oregon
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