Collectors, History & Fellowship
Fifth Edition
The fifth edition of the Baltimore Bottle Book is now available. This 280-page edition includes numerous color photographs and more than 4,200 listings of embossed Baltimore bottles manufactured between 1820 and 1990.
Bottles are grouped by category or type, such as beers and medicines. Each bottle is described by characteristics including size, color and markings, along with other identifying details.
The listings also include a degree of scarcity determined by category specialists from within the Baltimore Antique Bottle Club.
Bottles are classified using four levels of scarcity:
Because bottle prices continually change, the book does not provide estimates of monetary value.
The fifth edition updates and expands the information in the previous four sold-out editions of the Baltimore Bottle Book.
Introductions to the individual sections help explain topics such as how scarcity was determined. Diagrams, photographs and other reference tools are also included to assist the reader.
The Baltimore Bottle Book grew from a vision of the late William A. "Doc" Andersen that began in 1985. He encouraged Baltimore Antique Bottle Club members to create lists of the Baltimore bottles they knew about so that a comprehensive Baltimore bottle reference could eventually be produced.
Under Doc Andersen's leadership, many club members and other members of the antique bottle community contributed their knowledge and assistance to the original book.
The current fifth edition was compiled and edited by Micah Dolina.
If you have a Baltimore bottle that is not listed in the fifth edition, please contact Micah Dolina.
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