Bottles of The Canadian Prairies and Code Reference and Price Guide

Chopping, George C.

Spy Hill, SK, 1978

By George C. Chopping
$222.00 USD
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Details

Hard Covers, 403 pages, 8/75x11.25 in [22.5x28.5 cm], B&W photographs. Includes Alphabetical and Code Numbers Index. Author's inscription on front endpaper. Only 1000 copies printed.

Price Guide: cardcover, 23 pages, 8.5x11 in [21.5x28 cm], B&W photographs.

Condition

Book. Ownership name and coordinates stamped on the blank front endpaper and publisher’s page. Rear pastedown and final 20 leaves with significant moisture staining and wrinkling. Slight wrinkling to the fore-edge margins of pages 310–381. Light moisture staining to the lower margin, extending from the blank front endpaper through page 3. Covers with moderate surface wear and light staining.

Price Guide. Fore-edge corners bumped and creased. Publisher’s page marked with an ownership and coordinates stamp and the author’s antique business stamp; the publisher’s address has been neatly lined through in ink. A passage on page 13 marked with pink highlighter. Rear cover lightly age-toned and marked with the author’s antique business stamp. The coordinates of the author’s antique business have been obscured with felt-tip marker, with bleed-through to the inner surface of the rear cover.
Notes

Bottles of the Canadian Prairies offers a province-by-province survey of Canada’s historic and collectible bottles, tracing their evolution from the early days of settlement through the 20th century. George C. Chopping documents regional glassworks, bottling companies, and distinctive provincial styles, illustrating how geography, industry, and trade shaped local production. The book highlights rare specimens, maker’s marks, and manufacturing techniques while providing context on the social and commercial history that produced them. Code Reference and Price Guide 1978-79 included. 
ISBN

0919213987
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