The Bottle Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Historic, Embossed Medicine Bottles [Paperback]

Richard E. Fike (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 293 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith; 1st edition (August 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087905218X
• ISBN-13: 978-0879052188
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,190,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard E. Fike is currently director and president of the board of the Museum of the Mountain West, Inc., in Montrose, Colorado. He is a noted historical archeologist, western historian, and author. After working with the Smithsonian Institution and several other museums, he worked for 29 years with the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, leading the archaeology programs in Utah and Colorado. Fike was appointed by the governors of Colorado and Utah to represent historic archaeology on the state and federal registers of historic places. While serving on these committees he increased his knowledge of the best practices in historical restoration and oversaw many restoration projects. Fike began collecting historical artifacts at the age of four, had his first museum in his home at age eight, and then realized this lifelong pursuit of establishing a museum beginning in 1998 when he built the Museum of the Mountain West, Inc., designated as a non-profit museum in 2005. The museum contains eighteen historic buildings that have been donated by the community to be preserved and shared for the education of people in the importance of preserving western history. The main museum contains well over one-half million artifacts in ten recreated stores and offices... a whole western town. Richard is the author of numerous technical historical books, and most recently, a western novel.

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and Scientific approach to antique medicine bottle, February 27, 1998

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This review is from: The Bottle Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Historic, Embossed Medicine Bottles (Paperback)

This book is beyond belief. It is authoritative

and accurate to the extreame. It includes

histories of the main medicine companies of the

nineteenth century, bottle and medicine histories,

in-depth classification and description

of each bottle and its variants

(color, height, shape, neck type, embossing, etc.),

and clear pictures or helpful drawings

of the specimen. A definite must-have for

the serious collector and hobbyist. Hats-off to Mr. Fike.