If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles
Antique 19th and early 20th century bottles have long attracted collectors, due to their beautiful shapes and colors, historical interest, and availability to anyone willing to do some sleuthing and some digging.
The rarest and most prized bottles include mouth-blown (as opposed to machine made) bottles from the 1800s, especially those in interesting shapes (e.g. figural bitters), with dire warnings (e.g. medicine or poison bottles) or other interesting embossings. Collectors often seek pontil marks and rare colors, and of course, condition is paramount.
There are in fact dozens of categories of collectible bottles, including milk bottles, soda bottles, beer bottles, flasks, ink bottles, perfume bottles, fruit (Mason) jars and Ball jars, liquor bottles, snuff bottles... the list goes on...
Many collectors also focus on specific brands or regions (e.g. the West), or bottles that were used in certain venues (e.g. pharmacy).
by 
by 
by Interviews & Articles
Bill Lindsey on How To Read a Bottle
My maternal grandfather and uncle got into bottles in about 1965 or ‘66 when I was in high school, and we started digging. My uncl… [more]
Best of the Web (“Hall of Fame”)
Historic Glass Bottle Identification
Bill Lindsey's fantastic bottle identification and information site. Loaded with detailed descriptions and diagrams… [read review or visit site]
Antique Bottle Collector's Haven
There's a ton of information here, but as with bottles, you have to dig to find the best stuff. Start with the famo… [read review or visit site]
Bottle Cap Index
Assembled by Gunther Rademacher with the help of several other contributors, this collection of over half a million… [read review or visit site]
Plopsite.de
Norbert Lamping's collection of 600+ ceramic bottle stoppers, Hutter stoppers, swingtops, swivel stoppers, and ligh… [read review or visit site]
Old Spice Collectibles
Lather up with Creighton Fricek's complete chronology of collectible Old Spice shaving products. Start with the bot… [read review or visit site]
Clubs & Associations: Bottles
- Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors
- Little Rhody Bottle Club
- International Perfume Bottle Association
- Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club
- Findlay Antique Bottle Club
Discussion Forums: Bottles
Other Great Reference Sites: Bottles
Top eBay Auctions
Gii-62 Eagle Willington Glass Co Ct. Flask Blue Green Color
Rare Straight Side Pepsi Cola Bottle - Appalachia, Va Virginia - Rarity 4-5
Indian Rock Ginger Ale Bottle Purple Pepsi Cola Richmond Va Bowling Pin Shape
Beautiful Green Cone Ink Open Pontil
Yellow Moss Green Antique Umbrella Ink Bottle Open Pontil.
Pinehurst Nc Milk Can - Nc Milk Bottle- Leonard Tufts Name Stamped In
Old Stoddard N.h. Granite Glass Co. Dark Amber Pontil Bottom Horseshoe Bottle
"estes Ink N.y" Pontiled 8-sided -aqua Covill# 117 Super Scarce
16 Sided 0pen Pontil Ink .olive Green Superb Unclean
Ca.1880-1900 Cobalt Blue Casper Whiskey Bottle Scarce 4 City / Vintage / Rare
Antique Amber Glass Log Cabin St Drakes Bitters Bottle 1862 Patented 1860 
1835-45 Gii-24 Pontil Double Eagle Louisville Rare Blue Flask Bottle Wow!
Antique Large Cobalt Blue Poison Bottle Triangle Shape 8 1/4" No Reserve
"pepsi-cola"collection-30sodas-california Towns-2 Color-3 Color-bonus 2 8oz.
Light Yellow Olive Antique Umbrella Ink Bottle Open Pontil.
Antique Woodstock Yasgur Farms Milk Bottle
***otto Zwietusch Copper Seltzer Bottle/ Container***
Howell & Smith Buffalo Ny Ten Pin Soda Bottle With Pontil
Beautiful Anheuser-busch Aqua Blob Top Bottle, Wire Bale Top, Vintage!
Rare Color Umbrella Ink Prussian/peacock Blue ! Antique Bottle
Antique Pontiled Freeeblown Green Chestnut Flask 4 7/8" Tall
1820's Geometric Three Mold Inkwell ~ Coventry Connecticut Ink Bottle ~ Pontil ~
Antique Amber W.h. Ware Patented 1866 The Fish Bitters Bottle No Reserve
Rare Coventry Utility Bottle With Small Blobby Tapered Lip. Color & Condition !!
Super Seedy Crude Utility Bottle, Probably Pitkin Glassworks Wow L@@k Mint Mint
Dr/ Fisch's Bitters / W H Ware Pat.d 1866 Fish Bitters Bottle 
Beautiful Gi-91 General Lafayette American Eagle Flask Open Pontil
1820's Washington Jackson Historical Flask ~ Coventry Connecticut ~ Antique
Pepsi Cola Bottle
(4) Four 1920's Pepsi Cola Bottle Norfolk Suffolk Exmore Va Virginia & Durham Nc
Vintage Cone Top Soda Can / Pepsi Cola - Pepsi / 3/15-3/25
Antique J.s. Mason Philadelphia Pa. Open Pontil Medicine Bottle Green
Antique Dark Green Medicine Blob Top Bottle Attic Find 
Excellent C1740+ Spa Water Bottle, Bloomed Neck & Roullettd Stringrim Excellent
South Carolina Dispensary Union Flask # 172
~awesome Ocean Find~virgin Islands~pontiled~yellow /org.~p.herrink Ribbon Seal
Reduced Reserve~no Issues~flared Lip~open Pontil~mccombie's/compound/restorative
Genie Acl Soda Bottle
1840's Gi-47 Lockport Ny Pontil Washington Historical Flask Bottle Teal Awesome!
Arctic Soda Works Honolulu T.h. 
Super "rare" Threadless Jar - Anchor Mason's Patent. - Packer Press On Cap
Rare Green Beefy Dip Molded Pontiled Snuff With Chamfered Corners Mint Mint Mint
Extreme Rare Guerlain "attrape Coeur" (guet Apens) No.68 Bee Bottle,discontinued
Antique Advertising Tiffany & Allen Peterson Nj Stoneware Glaze Beer Bottle 
F. Seitz Easton Pa Improved S Patent With Pontil Soda Bottle
Early Master Ink Bottle - Forest Green
Pontiled Blob Soda / California Gold Rush Soda Bottle / Taylor & Co.
Vintage Early 1940's Jose V. Bottegoni Industria Argentina Soda Seltzer Bottle
Beautiful 1912 Fla. Pepsi Cola Soda Bottle Tampa Florida
Summer Winter Quart Tree Flask Pontiled Nice!! No Wording 
South Carolina Dispensary Union Flask #175
"torah Beverages"-acl-1940-cambridge,mass.-crown Jewel Of Acl's-sodas Soda Pop
Large Bunker Hill Pickles Bottle No Reserve 
H. H. Warner & Co. Tippecanoe Bitters Bottle Amber Pat. Nov. 20 1883 Near Mint
Antique Dark Green Medicine Bottle Attic Find 
Antique Solon Palmer Perfume Bottle
San Diego California Embossed & Label Ishams Water Of Life Mineral Water Bottle
Pepsi Cola Bottle
Pepsi Cola Bottle
Antique Early American Amber Glass Bottle Flask Pontil
Recent News: Bottles
Source: Google News
Dundee takeover: Characters out of Dallas
Evening Telegraph, May 22ndHead of the family, 72-year-old James H Keyes, even boasts a cellar with 3,000 vintage bottles of wine — at least a couple of which he could be uncorking if he takes control at Dens Park. Keyes senior is understood to have a supervisory role in the...Read more
Moneague tops REAP
Jamaica Observer, May 21stThe students in the core programme were asked to use creative and imaginative ways to promote conservation in school, as well as tree planting and bottle collection exercises. In all, 2,500 trees were planted and 20,000 plastic bottles collected. "This...Read more
Zions Bank now accepting Smart Women Grant applications
The Idaho Statesman, May 20thUsful Glassworks will be holding a bottle collection drive called Bottles uP! on Sunday, May 26, at its donation center, 5858 West Franklin Road in Boise. Staffers will take donations from noon to 3 p.m. They need spirit and soda pop bottles as well as...Read more
Korkage Wine Bar Relocating to Three Square Grill Space
Portland Monthly, May 20thThe wine bar—which will continue to offer a large Northwest-centric bottle collection and live entertainment at the new location—has gained a loyal following in and out of the Hillsdale community. Now, Boleyn and Johnson hope to leverage that loyalty...Read more
Area Snapshots
Montana Standard, May 19thThe Montana Bottle Collectors Association will present its annual bottle, antique and collectibles show Friday, May 31, 4 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, June 1, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Butte Civic Center, 1340 Harrison Ave. Admission is $5 on May 31, which...Read more
15th annual antique bottle show at Appalachian Fairgrounds May 4
Elizabethton Star, May 1stThe State of Franklin Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club will hold its 15th annual Antique Collectibles and Bottle Show and Sale on Saturday, May 4, in the Farm and Home Building at the Appalachian Fairgrounds in Gray. Admission is free during show...Read more
Antique bottles, collectibles association to hold show Saturday
Kingsport Times News, April 28thAntique bottle collectors looking to add a few new items to their collection will find plenty to choose from at the State of Franklin Antique Bottles and Collectibles Association's 15th annual Antique Bottles and Collectibles Show, happening Saturday...Read more
Crowd finds plenty at annual Bottle Collectors' Show
Salisbury Post, April 24thSALISBURY — Buoyed by good weather and other events in Salisbury, the Seventh Annual Bottle Collectors' Show at the Civic Center drew a good-sized crowd last Saturday. “Lots of people don't know what a Bottle Show is until they come,” said Show...Read more