The markings were customized for businesses, like schools and inns, and for aristocrats, farmers, merchants and intellectuals. In the books, he describes how fashions in bottle shapes evolved over centuries, from spheres to onions and cylinders. “You can scratch the surface and get a huge amount of history out of them,” he said.
Burton said in an interview, his family wondered if he would ever finish poring through the back stories of bottles. Burton, 77, has spent decades hunting for intact and broken vessels in private and institutional collections and deciphering their codes of numbers, letters and family coats of arms for his new three-volume set, “Antique Sealed Bottles 1640-1900 and the Families Who Owned Them” ( Antique Collectors’ Club).ĭuring the research, Mr. The British glass historian David Burton has created a 1,740-page set of books to analyze a seemingly narrow topic: antique bottles that bear raised markings identifying the original owners.
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