Articles

Mudlarking: Bellarmine Jugs and Witch Bottles

These 16th-century German stoneware jugs have survived intact for 500 years in and along the River Thames.

Sea Glass Pastels

Look at your sea glass collection and treasure those pastel colors, which often were the results of nature until the 20th century.

Using Bottle Maker Marks to Identify Your Sea Glass

Sea glass bottle bottoms might help you ID pieces in your stash.

They just kept coming…

I could not believe I found six black bottle stoppers in one day...but where do they come from and what are they made of?

Tales of Whiskey and Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was a well-known whiskey lover.

Love Floats

Finding messages in bottles open windows into the lives of people I never could have met any other way.

Getting to the Bottom of It: Identification of Bottle Bottoms

Finding a section of a bottle base makes learning about the original vessel much easier than finding a side wall of a bottle.

Mudlarking: Giving New Life to Historic Glass

Collecting the city’s waste for nearly 2,000 years, the River Thames is a great repository of discarded objects, especially glass.

Privy to History

The beach isn’t the only place to find antique and well preserved glass artifacts.

The Codd Neck Bottle

The Codd marble bottle was born from the need to keep carbonated drinks from going "flat." Earlier and original Codd bottles, and the marbles foun...

Schlitz Royal Ruby Red

America’s one-time best selling and largest producer of beer has a history possibly richer and tastier than the beer itself, and likely as interest...

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