Antique Trader Bottles Identification and Price Guide by Michael Polak is a large book, but it also comes in an electronic edition. You'll find extensive information about bottle types and prices.

A: During Prohibition (1920-1933), old liquor bottles were often used to hold homemade liquor. A law prohibiting the resale or reuse of used liquor bottles was passed in 1935.

A statement online said: “The bottle cap branded ‘Rileys’ is itself also of historical interest, with the chisel shaped design having been created in 1885 by Frederic George Riley, who ...