Why is there more coverage of mouth-blown than machine-made bottles?
Be aware that the author of this website has much more experience with mouth-blown bottles (19th century up until about 1920) than more recent machine-made items. He also has had more access to mouth-blown items for photographing and describing on this site. A user may find that this site is skewed towards mouth-blown items, though there is a plethora of information on machine-made bottle also. Part of this is also a function of mouth-blown bottles and manufacturing being arguably a more complicated subject than bottles from the machine-made era, where uniformity and standardization was the key to enhanced productivity. However, as time goes on and more depth is inevitably added to the website over the years, machine-made bottle information will undoubtedly be expanded. This will be especially true for the information on the Bottle Typing/Diagnostic Shapes complex of pages where additional machine-made bottle examples will be added.
