Bottle Museum Showcases Centuries-Old Handmade Glass Bottles

Until the beginning of the 20th century, glass bottles - for pharmacies, breweries, and dairy farms - were all produced by hand.  Demand in the 1800s was so tremendous that bottle making was the first mass production industry in the United States.  The National Bottle Museum in Saratoga County, New York preserves that history,  displaying Interesting and centuries-old handmade bottles The liquor bottles, called Dutch Onions because of their origin and shape, are the oldest...

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