Welcome to the Collectible Bottle Blog. It’s my intention to use this forum to serve as a clearing house for all thing pertaining to the collection of bottles, both old and new. We hope to keep the collector up to date on bottle shows meetings and events around the county all year round. We’ll talk about where are the best places to find collectible bottles, how to plan for a bottle collecting excursion, how to put a price on what you have or a value on what you want to buy. News about our collection community, names of people and organizations, web sites and publications that you can use as a resource to better understand our hobby and its many nuances. We will certainly talk about old bottles but I would like to spend a good deal of time and space covering bottles that were designed to be collected: commemorative coke bottles, Jim Beam style whiskey decanters, avon bottles, etc..

Ours is a growing and ever changing community that needs a ongoing forum to keep up to date . My hope is that thise will be very much of a community activity . While I have a long list of topics and issues that I’d like to cover over the next few years I would encourage you to make your thoughts and ideas known either thoughts responding to my posts or sending me a private email. If you have questions, send them on. If I can’t answers them I can put them on the blog and see what the community at large can turn up. I’m certain that with everyone’s help we can make this blog, informative, thought provoking, occasionally controversial and above all fun. I’m looking forward, with your help and comments, to making this blog a real asset to the bottle collecting community.

One item that is indispensable to the experienced collector or to the novice is a price guide. There are a number of them but the one that I’ve found most helpful is Antique Trader Bottles. Identification and Price Guide. Frist, Bottles gives quite an extensive list of collectible bottles both antique and recent. It also provides you with a concise explanation of how bottles are made and what to look for and how to evaluate you find. Finally are the number of colored photos. This gives you a strong visual guide to help you along the way.

We will be recommending other resources along the way but I think “Bottles” is an absolute must for someone who is serious about building a authentic assemblage of collectible bottles.