Category Archives: Early American Glass

My Visit to the Sandwich Glass Museum | Part 1

Posted on 15 June 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

My Visit to the Sandwich Glass Museum | Part 1 of 2 by Sandor P. Fuss 15 June 2014 Hi Ferdinand, I am going to send you 70 pictures that I took during my visit to the Sandwich Glass Museum … Continue reading →

Posted in Art Glass, Dinnerware, Display, Early American Glass, Freeblown Glass, Glass Companies & Works, Lamps, Museums, News, Photography | Tagged Glass, museum, sandor fuss, Sandwich | 1 Comment

The Bust of Lafayette – Coventry Glass Works Mold

Posted on 28 May 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Bust of Lafayette – Coventry Glass Works Mold Mold Section Found in the River in Mansfield, Connecticut 28 May 2014 John Pastors, American Glass Gallery Auction #12 ends this evening and I sit here watching a few items of … Continue reading →

Posted in Auction News, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, Historical Flasks, History | Tagged auction, Connecticutt, Corning, Coventry, Flask, GI-85A, Gladys W. Richards, Glass, Historical, Jane Shadel Spillman, John Pastor, Lafayette, Mansfield, mold, Paul C. Richards, section, Stebbins, Works | Leave a comment

The Rushton & Aspinwall Compound Chlorine Toothwash – New York

Posted on 25 March 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Rushton & Aspinwall Compound Chlorine Toothwash New York 25 March 2014 Sandor Fuss (Denver) tipped me off to watch an incredible bottle that is making hay in the latest Norman C. Heckler Auction 108 that is currently on line … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Auction News, Druggist & Drugstore, Early American Glass, Medicines & Cures, Utility Bottles | Tagged Aspinwall, auction, chlorine, Compound, Druggist & Drugstore, Fuss, Heckler, Keene, low, Medicine, New York, Reed, Rushton, Sandor, Stoddard, Tod von Mechow, tooth wash, William, Willington | Leave a comment

Two Extraordinary Wide Mouth Sunburst Snuff Jars

Posted on 21 March 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Two Extraordinary Wide Mouth Sunburst Snuff Jars 21 March 2014 Many of you may remember the extraordinary wide mouth Keene Glass Works, wide mouth Sunburst flask that was sold by Glass Works Auctions at the FOHBC 2013 National Antique Bottle Show … Continue reading →

Posted in Auction News, Bottles and Extras, Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Glass Companies & Works, Historical Flasks, History, Snuff | Tagged auction, Clarissa, Dundon, Flask, fohbc, Fuss, Glass, Heckler, Jacob's, jar, Keene, Manchester, Merritt, mouth, New Hampshire, Sandor, Snuff, sunburst, Vanderbilt, wide, Works | Leave a comment

Beneath Lincoln’s ass they used to load a lot of glass.

Posted on 15 March 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Beneath Lincoln’s ass they used to load a lot of Glass Washington City Glass Works – ‘Old Glass House’ by Stephen Atkinson 14 March 2014 Unknown to most Washingtonians and other Americans, and particularity we few in the glass collecting … Continue reading →

Posted in Article Publications, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Early American Glass, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Utility Bottles, Windows | Tagged Abraham, Ass, Columbia, Commissioners, Curts, Edwards, Glass, house, jar, Johnson, Lincoln, mclean, memorial, Old, Potomac, Schneider, slag, Stanger, Washington, Way, Wharf, window, Works | 1 Comment

The Isabella Glass Works of Thomas Stanger – 1841 to 1856

Posted on 13 March 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Isabella Glass Works of Thomas Stanger – 1841 to 1856 Part 3 by Stephen Atkinson 13 March 2014 Part 1: Frederick Stanger and John Marshall 1831-1832 Part 2: Thomas Wriggins Stanger and John Marshall 1832-1839 Thomas Stanger began building a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Currency, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, Historical Flasks, History | Tagged Anchor, Atkinson, banner, Brooklyn, factory, Glass, GXIII-56, GXIII-57, Isabella, Marshall, McKearin, Shin-Plaster, Stanger, Stephen, Wheat, Works | Leave a comment

A Stroll through the Scrolls

Posted on 22 February 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

A Stroll through the Scrolls Charles and Jane Aprill 22 February 2014 (R•040419 – Heckler Aprill Auction) Charles Aprill recently posted some outstanding examples of various sized blue scroll historical flasks over on Bottle Collectors on Facebook. I thought I … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Display, Early American Glass, Facebook, Flasks, Historical Flasks, Miniatures, Photography | Tagged Aprill, blue, Charles, Flask, gallery, Historical, Jane, miniature, pint, quart, Scroll | Leave a comment

I remember visiting the Sandwich Glass Museum

Posted on 6 January 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I remember visiting the Sandwich Glass Museum 06 January 2014 Incoming e-mail and pictures from Denver, Colorado collector, Sandor Fuss. I had the privilege of seeing some of these pieces in person during a recent trip to see his historical flask … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Collectors & Collections, Cologne, Decanter, Display, Early American Glass, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers | Tagged Boston, Chatham, cologne, Colorado, Decanter, Denver, Fuss, Jedlicka, Latticino, Marbrie, monument, Sandor, Sandwich | Leave a comment

Looking at a Collection of Pattern Molded Flasks

Posted on 24 November 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Looking at a Collection of Pattern Molded Flasks 24 November 2013 While visiting with John Pastor and Liz Maxbauer in New Hudson, Michigan the other day, I was able to look at quite a few extraordinary bottles including Merchant’s Gargling … Continue reading →

Posted in Blown Glass, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Display, Early American Glass, Flasks | Tagged flasks, Hudson, John Pastor, Michigan, molded, New, Pattern, Pitkin | 2 Comments

Unknown New England Glass factory’s contract with Clapp & Townsend July 15, 1848

Posted on 16 November 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Unknown New England Glass factory’s contract with Clapp & Townsend July 15, 1848 16 November 2013 (R•112413) I agree to make for Clapp & Townsend and deliver at the Boston Rail Road Depot at Greenbush (NY) between the first of … Continue reading →