Bottles and Bottle Collecting
Bottles and Bottle Collecting
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About this book
While the prices of most antiques have soared in recent decades, rising well beyond the price-range of the average person, bottles have remained comparatively inexpensive. In Victorian times, our forebears packed everything from tea to hair-restorer in glass bottles that were discarded with general household refuse - with the result that, in rubbish dumps all over Britain, these bottles are waiting to be dug up, each non-machine-made bottle a collector’s item that affords the collector a rare opportunity to unearth and restore their own collection. This book describes the development of bottles of all sorts and illustrates over two hundred examples.
Contents
- Introduction
- Blowing a bottle
- Wine Bottles
- Sealed bottles
- Cased gins
- Beers
- Mineral waters
- Medicines
- Stoneware
- Embossing
- Moulds
- Lips
- How and what to collect
- Places to visit
Paperback; May 2011; 32 pages; ISBN: 9780852632093