DATABASES

This page gives you access to several databases that can help you identify shot glasses and their owners. Click on the pics to take you to the relevant database. These databases were compiled by collectors like YOU. If you can help out by providing information or pictures, please contact the glassmaster. Thank you!

pre-pro.com
Database

SHOT GLASSES: The pre-pro.com Shot-Glass Database
One of the main goals of this web site was to create an online database that lists ALL known shot glasses along with information about their origins, their originators, and with a clear picture if available. It's currently taking shape in the form of the pre-pro.com database. It is updated monthly to incorporate new information and contributions.

The database is being constructed for the benefit of the entire collecting community, so please consider contributing. Even the smallest piece of information is welcomed. Thanks!!

SHOT GLASSES: The Sales Database
The database includes sales data from 13,000 individual glass auctions logged over the past seven years. Access requires a membership fee, but it the database includes several thousand unlisted glasses.

Serious collectors will want to take out membership at the Sniper level to access statistics showing rarity and values of pre-pro glasses. Trial memberships are available.

SHOT GLASSES: HSG / OASG online
The two books that constitute the shot glass collector's Bible are now available online. Clicking on the links to HSG or OASG will take you to the individual books. The indexes have been converted to links that will connect you with relevant pages in the books. The pages are scanned images of the originals and may take some time to download: please have patience if you are using a dial-up modem.

HSG & OASG
Online

AS A SPECIAL BONUS, we have created a Cumulative Index that is arranged by State that will take you with a single click to the relevant entry in HSG, OASG and the pre-pro.com database.:

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= SEARCH the pre-pro.com/HSG/OASG Cumulative Index

The Snyder
Whiskey Brand
Database

The Robert E. Snyder Whiskey Brand Database
Bob Snyder has single-handedly tracked the origins and use of thousands of pre-prohibition whiskey brands. His work has taken decades of devotion but has provided us with the basic tools that allow us to now research the distillers and dealers who filled the glasses, bottles and jugs that we cherish.

Bob made all of his work available through the publication of "Whiskey Brands", a listing of over 7,000 brands and their owners. This was compiled in electronic form by Howard Currier and is presented here with Bob's and Howard's blessing and encouragement. New brands are added monthly through the help of collectors like YOU: the database now contains >10,000 brands!

City Listings
for Distillers, Rectifiers and Wholesalers

CITY LISTINGS: Business directory listings for
Distillers, Rectifiers and Liquor Wholesalers
This links you to a repository of information on the originators of shot glasses - the distillers and wholesalers who gave them away as a form of advertising. This includes information gleaned from city business directories on names and addresses of Distillers, Rectifiers and Wholesalers from 1870 to Prohibition. Histories of many individual companies can additionally be accessed through the Research section of this web.

Distillery Database

DISTILLERIES: The www.pre-pro.com Distilleries Database
A compilation of information on the actual distilleries who were supplying the wholesalers and who were themselves often a direct source of advertising.

COLLECTORS - PLEASE HELP!
These databases are being put together for your benefit, so PLEASE provide feedback on what you think works, doesn't work, what you'd like to see added or modified or improved. Send an e-mail to glassmaster@pre-pro.com or use the online Discussion Room. Further growth and updating of the databases will very much depend on participation by collectors such as yourself.

We also very much hope that all collectors will start cataloging their own glasses if they find them missing from the pre-pro.com shot glass database. Note that adding your own glasses to the database doesn't have to happen overnight. Glasses CAN be added a few at a time. Catalogs can be compiled using an ordinary word-processor or a spreadsheet, but we want to make this as easy as possible, so please contact the glassmaster@pre-pro.com for more ideas.