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Christopher,

Here are some of the references that I have found useful in dealing with
late 19th and early 20th century bottles.

Bibliography for machine-made glass containers.    G. L. Miller   August 1,
2000

Davis, Pearce
     1949 The Development of the American Glass Industry.  Harvard Economic
          Studies, Vol. 86.  Reprinted by Russel and Russel, 1970, New
          York.
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.
Scoville, Warren C.
     1948 Revolution in Glassmaking: Entrepreneurship and Technological
          Change in the American Glass Industry, 1880-1920. Harvard
          University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts
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.

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