Here is a little question for you to ponder. What makes an antique black glass bottle rare?

In my worldwide quest for rare antique black glass bottles, I've visited fairs, auctions, read the reference books, chatted with old-timers, dealers, collectors, divers, miners, museum curators etc.

Everyone told me the same old story - English black glass bottles have sand pontil scars and Dutch bottles have open pontil scars. It sounded like the days when navigators thought that the world was flat and one could sail off the edge into oblivion. Every serious collector had a shaft and globe or a sealed bottle left behind by English aristocrats, Oxford and Cambridge universities, breweries, glasshouses and pub landlords.

Welcome to the real world of black glass.

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