Brian,
Here are some of the references that I have found useful in dealing with
machine-made bottles.
Bibliography for machine-made glass containers.
Fike, Richard E.
1987 The Bottle Book A Comprehensive Guide to Historic, Embossed
Medicine Bottles. Gibbs M. Smith Books, Salt Lake City,
Jones, Olive and Catherine Sullivan with contributions by George L. Miller,
E. Ann
Smith, Jane E. Harris and Kevin Lunn
1989 The Parks Canada Glass Glossary. National Historic Parks and
Sites. Canadian Parks Service. Environment Canada. Ottawa.
Lief, Alfred
ca1966 A Close-Up of Closures: History and Products. Glass Container
Manufacturers Institute. New York.
McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson
1978 American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry. Crown Publishers
Inc,
New York
George L. Miller and Antony Pacey
l985 Impact of Mechanization in the Glass Container Industry: The
Dominion Glass Company of Montreal, a Case Study. Historical
Archaeology Vol.20, No.1:38-50.
George L. Miller and Catherine Sullivan
1981 Machine-made Glass Containers and the End of Production for
Mouth-blown Bottles. Research Bulletin No.171. Parks Canada,
Ottawa.
Reprinted 1984, Historical Archaeology. Vol.19 No.2:83-96.
reprinted 1991 in Approaches to Material Culture Research for
Historical Archaeologists G.L. Miller, O.R.Jones, L.A. Ross and
T. Majewski, compilers. published by the Society for Historical
Archaeology. pp.99-112.
Munsey, Cecil
1970 The Illustrated Guide to Collecting Bottles. Hawthorn Books. New
York.
This is one of the better bottle collector books and it contains
some good information.
Toulouse, Julian Harrison
1971 Bottle Makers and Their Marks. Thomas Nelson Inc. Camden, New
Jersey. The bible on glass maker's marks. Toulouse was a
glass engineer and he had excellent connections for gathering
his information.
Toulouse, Julian Harrison
1969 Fruit Jars. Thomas Nelson Inc. Camden, New Jersey.
Sincerely,
George L. Miller
URS Corp.
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