A cataloguing app for antique bottle collectors

Every dug bottle is two finds: the glass, and the spot. This app records the first and protects the second.

Dig sites stay secret

Pin the privy, the dump, the riverbank — exactly, for yourself alone. Other collectors see only a blurred region. Photographs are scrubbed of hidden location data on the server, so posting a picture of the find never quietly posts the site with it.

Glass rewards close description

Embossing transcribed, colour named honestly, lip and base described, bubbles and whittle noted — and a date range with a confidence level rather than a wish. The guides cover reading glass: pontil scars, mould seams, applied lips, and how old glass differs from merely old-looking glass.

From the hole to the shelf

Every bottle gets photographs, measurements and a permanent number in your own register. Build a museum of the best, share it or keep it private, and ask the identification board about the embossing nobody local recognises. No prices, no marketplace, ever.

Free reading, no account needed

Identifying ancient glass — Iridescence, bubbles, and weathering.

Dating glass wine bottles — From onion to cylinder — bottle shape is a timeline.

Identifying trade and glass beads — Drawn, wound, and chevron beads that travelled the world.

Identifying Roman glass — Blue-green vessels, ribbed bowls, and iridescence earned underground.

Identifying window glass — Crown bullseyes, cylinder sheets, and painted church fragments.

Identifying vessel glass fragments — Wine glass stems, phials, and the anatomy of broken glassware.

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