welcome to our website...
Welcome to British Antique Bottles, the website for the British Antique Bottle Forum, we have put together this small website to publicise and promote our online community, we have put a small amount of information about the hobby of antique bottle digging and collecting along with a selection of photos to give you an introduction to what we are all about and some details about our online forum.
The British Antique Bottle forum was founded by a small group of dedicated antique bottle collectors, originally started in early 2007 as the North West Antique Bottle Forum we opened our horizons becoming the British Antique Bottle Forum in mid 2008, since then our community has gone from strength to strength attracting bottle collectors from across the globe, in 2010 we achieved over a 1000 registered members, we are a friendly online community for like minded collectors of antique bottles, pot lids, jars, advertising, brewery memorabilia and related items which is now funded by the kind support of our members, the aim of our forum and website is to promote and publicize the hobby and related events and hopefully ensure the hobby continues onto the younger generation, early in 2012 we linked up with the Australian Antique Bottle Forum and became "sister forums" creating a link between the collectors in Great Britain and our good friends across Australia.
Above: a selection of antique bottles and pots.
Once you have registered with our community you will have access to view 1000's of images of antique bottles and related collectables from across the world that have been submitted by our members, we hold monthly competitions and polls so you can enter your favourite, newly acquired and dug items, and then vote on items entered at the end of the month, we post the latest updates about bottle shows, clubs and other events, there is a large number of interesting articles relating to company histories including archive photos of 100's of old businesses dating from the 1800's such as public houses, breweries, drug stores, advertising, you will also be able to view photos and digging reports posted by our members from long forgotten old Victorian and Edwardian refuse dumps, our members and forum team have a vast experience in the identification of antique bottles and related items between them and are always on hand to help wherever they can.
Above: bottles seeing the light of day for the first time in over a 100 years.
the forum and registration...
Before you can access any of the content or communicate with other members you must register for an account, registering for an account is 100% free and only takes a few minutes to complete, during registration you will be asked a few questions to create your account, we gather the minimum possible information to confirm your identity, once your account has been checked and approved by one of our administrators, normally within 24 hours, you will have full access to our online community, a copy of the privacy policy for the British Antique Bottle Forum can be found here, once your registration is complete information such as your email address, ip address will not be accessible by other members of the forum, during registration you will be asked to agree to our forums rules available here.
Due to the risks posed by spam posting we have had to disallow automated registration with some free web based emails, this is simply to protect our members from unwanted spam and links to unsuitable content, its always best to use your isp based email address, if you have no other option than using a web based email please contact us and a member of the forum team will get back to you to set up an account manually, its never advisable to use the same username or password you use for sites such as PayPal, eBay, online banking etc when registering with any forum.
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