My emails to Australia are not working this morning. I am unable to
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the information I have received. Here, then, for the whole list to read,
is George
Miller's suggested references on machine-made bottles.
Brian Siegel
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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
ca.1966 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.
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