Category Archives: Color Runs

Picture of great color runs.

Walker’s Vinegar Bitters bottled in Pastel Shades to “conceal the mess”

Posted on 3 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Dr. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters “This ‘Bitters’ is one of the nastiest nostrums, introduced and largely sold by the most extensive and brazen advertising under the false pretense of being free from alcohol.” Walker’s Vinegar Bitters bottled in Pastel Shades … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Color Runs, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Remedy | Tagged bitters, Brenton, california, Dr. Gibbon’s, Dr. Walker, Indian Vegetable Bitters, John Campbell Spence, John Harvey Kellogg, Joseph Walker, London, New York, pastel, R.H. McDonald & Company, Richard H. McDonald, Rick Hall, San Francisco, Stockton, Temperance, Vinegar | Leave a comment

Danny Catherino and his Great Bottle Hoard

Posted on 31 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I received some interesting communications and pictures recently from Danny Catherino up in Philadelphia. I am going to leave the e-mails and pictures alone for the most part. I find these images and Danny really interesting. Obviously not the best … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Figural Bottles, Medicines & Cures, Soda Water | Tagged Danny Catherino, Drakes, Glass Works, Harmer Rooke, Jeff Wichmann, Jim Hagenbuch, Leighton's, Norman Heckler, Osbourns, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Bottle Club | Leave a comment

A Summer Day at Peachridge in 2007

Posted on 29 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

In 2007, Elizabeth and I commissioned our friend and professional photographer, Steve Harris, to spend the morning in our home taking pictures of windows and bottles. We gave him free reign and left him alone. A few of the photographs … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Display, Figural Bottles, Insulators, Lightning Rod Balls, Peachridge Glass, Photography, Pickle Jars, Poison Bottles, Windows | Tagged Bears, bitters, Elizabeth, HP Herb Wild Cherry Bitters, Insulators, Ladies Legs, Lightning Rod Ball, Peachridge, photographer, Skilton Foote Bunker Hill Pickles, Victorian Room, Violins | Leave a comment

Some New Fish Bitters Photographs

Posted on 28 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

CORN – QUEEN – FISH 20 December 2012 Recently I had my friend and professional photographer Steve Harris (pictured on left) spend the morning at Peachridge and photograph our various bottle rooms. Steve also works with me on select FMG Design projects … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Display, Figural Bottles, Peachridge Glass, Photography, Windows | Tagged Fish Bitters, photography, Steve Harris | Leave a comment

Pictures of the Week 12-22-12

Posted on 23 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

This is the third weekly round-up of some really nice photography from various facebook and other glass web sites. Make sure you visit the Fresh Peach Gallery which represents the best of the best pictures from 2012. P H O … Continue reading →

Posted in Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Chestnut, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Demijohns, Digging and Finding, Early American Glass, Flasks, Marbles, Paperweights, Photography, Schnapps, Snuff | Tagged Angus Rae, Chestnut, Dale Mlasko, Dale Santos, David Walker Barker, Demijohn, Flask, Jeff Wichmann, Joseph Bottone, Marbles, Michael George, photography, Pitkin, Rick DeMarsh, Simon Jackson, Snuff, Tom Doligale, Tom Leveille, Tom Marshall, Udolpho Wolfe, Virginia, Waveney | Leave a comment

Wheeler’s Berlin Bitters – Baltimore

Posted on 18 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

WHEELER’S BERLIN BITTERS B A L T I M O R E 18 December 2012 (R•051414) (R•030915) Hi Ferd, I was aware of your pictures on Peachridge recently of your three “Wheeler’s” (see above) and was amazed of how close … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Early American Glass, History, Questions | Tagged Baker Brothers, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Berlin, bitters, Chris Rowell, Dave Kyle, Ferdinand Meyer IV, M. Wheeler, Wheeler, Wheeler & Spriggs, Wheeler's | Leave a comment

Jack Stecher and his John Moffat Phoenix Bitters

Posted on 15 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

J O H N M O F F A T P H O E N I X B I T T E R S N E W Y O R K Jack Stecher and his John Moffat … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Blown Glass, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Early American Glass, Medicines & Cures | Tagged Bill Ham, Jack Stecher, Jewett's, John Moffat, New York, Phoenix Bitters, pontil | 3 Comments

Hampton’s Vegetable Tincture – Mortimer & Mowbray – Balto

Posted on 14 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

HAMPTON’S V. TINCTURE MORTIMER & MOWBRAY BALTO 14 December 1012 Dr. Hampton’s Vegetable Tincture: a medicine justly celebrated for performing the most wonderful cures of all scrofulous complaints and diseases arising from impurity of the blood, and obstructions in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Digging and Finding, Druggist & Drugstore, Early American Glass, History, Medicines & Cures | Tagged Baltimore, Baltimore Glass Works, Balto, Chris Rowell, Dr. Hampton, George W. Mowbray, Hampton, Hampton's. Vegetable, John W. Mortimer, Ladd & Co., maryland, Mortimer, Mortimer & Mowbray, Mowbray, O. A. Strecker, Phil Edmonds, Purcell, Tincture, Virginia, Yellow Fever | Leave a comment

Leading up to Baltimore Glass Works

Posted on 11 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

LEADING UP TO BALTIMORE GLASS WORKS Looking for some answers… 11 December 1012 (R•091515) Baltimore flasks, Mr. Pollard says flatly, “come in the widest range of colors, the choicest tones of all.” WILLIAM C. POLLARD In Baltimore, glassmaking ranked as … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Bitters, Blown Glass, Bottling Works, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, Historical Flasks, History, Medicines & Cures, Questions, Technology, Windows | Tagged Adam Kohlenberg, Alexander Furnival, Amy Reed, Baltimore Glass Works, bitters, Chris Rowell, Corn For The World, Federal Hill Works, Frederick County, Frederick M. Amelung, Hughes-Street Works, Jacob Anhurtz, Jacob Frederick Dannwolf, John Amelung, John Frederick Magnus, Lewis Reppert, New Bremen Glassmanufactory, Patapsco River Glass House, Peter Engel, Phil Edmonds, Tom Lines, William C. Pollard | Leave a comment

Tom Doligale collection of Colored Squares

Posted on 7 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Not to be Undone.. I recently did a post on some killer unembossed colored squares from the Mike McKillop (Roseville, California) collection. Read: I happen to collect unembossed applied top squares. Embedded in the post was a cryptic.”Tom Doligale..are you looking?” … Continue reading →