A Treasury of American bottles (Art Glass History).pdf torrent

1975 | Bobbs-Merrill | pdf | English | 224 pag | 0672519623 | 33.8 MB

With information currently available, we know fairly well when any bottle was in production. To examine a fine Lafayette historical flask and know it was made in Amber Huckleberry bottle for preserving wild berries. (Courtesy Burton Spiller) 1824-1825, during the general's final visit to America, is to inspire the present and keep young the face of the past. An old medicine bottle tantalizinglv embossed "Swift's Syphilitic Specific," or one marked "Dr. Kilmer's Wild Indian Female Cancer Secret," evokes vivid associations of what the time was like when such bottled therapy could be purchased.
For some, these are not merelv bottles, but svmbols of a historic period. There is a degree of romance about a past time of which we were not anv part; there is romance in old bottles