Outline of Antique Bottle Subjects
- New Collectors is good place to start if you are new to
bottles on the Internet.
- For Sale lists of collectors selling antique bottles.
- Auctions are a fun and exciting place to buy bottles.
- Questions - knowledgeable collectors who
will try to answer your questions.
- Want to Buy list the bottles you are searching for
and see what other collectors are looking for.
- Free Email and Web Pages
shows you how to get on Email lists for antique bottle collectors and
even how to get your own free Email account and web page.
- Bottle Clubs in your area.
- Bottle Shows in your area.
- Books that help classify/appraise bottles.
- Magazines about antique bottle collecting.
- Newsletters for antique bottle collectors.
- News Groups where bottles are discussed
in a world-wide public forum.
- Packing guides you on the careful packing of
glass bottles, and the best ways to mail them.
- Antique Shops where you can buy bottles.
- Flea Markets are a good place to buy
cheap bottles.
- Classification describes the process of
determining what category (bitters, ink, whiskey, ...) that a bottle
belongs in.
- Colors shows a rainbow of different colors that bottles
occur in.
- Tops shows some of the different styles of tops (crown,
blob, ...)
found on antique bottles.
- Bases shows some of the different bases (pontil, smooth, ...)
found on antique bottles.
- Condition helps you rate the condition (near mint,
good, ...) of antique bottles.
- Closures shows some of the different style of closures
used to seal the contents of antique bottles.
- Companies that produced antique bottles.
- Digging provides tips on digging bottles, where to
find them, digging stories, and digging supplies.
- Digging & Cleaning - tools/tips on digging
for antique bottles, plus how to make your dirty bottles
look new again.
- Glossary defines terms used to commonly
describe antique bottles.
- Record Setting Bottles.
- Appraisals "how much is my bottle worth?"
- Dating "how old is my bottle?"
- Reggie's Background for creating these pages.
- Links to other bottle web pages that don't fall
into one of the categories above.