Category Archives: Early American Glass

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

Woods’ Baltimore City Directory – 1864

Posted on 10 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

I get asked all the time from collectors, especially in my collecting area of Bitters; “so what is happening?”, “heard about any new bottles?, “anything in the upcoming auction interest you?” or “are you going to the so and so … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Advice, Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Blown Glass, Bottling Works, Breweriana, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Demijohns, Early American Glass, Flasks, Fruit Jars, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Peachridge Glass, Publications, Soda Water, Spirits, Tobacco, Tonics | Tagged A. Hoen & Co., B. G. Tubman & Co., Baker Bros. & Co., Baltimore, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore Glass Works, bitters, Boggs, Boyd, Chris Rowell, city, Civil War, Cottman, directory, ferdinand meyer, German, John Boyd, John W. Woods, Tonic, University of Maryland, Woods | 2 Comments

Log Cabin Series – Drake’s Plantation Bitters

Posted on 28 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Log Cabin Series – Drake’s Plantation Bitters 28 November 2012 (R•090615) (R•090218) (R•110718) D R A K E ‘ S P L A N T A T I O N B I T T E R S There is no bitters … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Advice, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color, Color Runs, Currency, Digging and Finding, Diving, Early American Glass, Ephemera, Figural Bottles, History, Peachridge Glass, Postage, Questions, Spirits, Tax Stamps | Tagged 10, Binghamton, bitters, Brian Shultis, cabin, california, Demas Barnes, Digging, Drakes, encased, Figural, Glass, Jeff Burkhardt, John Gault, Log, New York, P.H. Drake, Patrick Henry Drake, Peachridge, Plantation, postage, privy, Revenue, SS Republic, St. Crox | Leave a comment

Who doesn’t love Scroll Flasks?

Posted on 21 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Who doesn’t love Scroll Flasks? 21 November 2012 (R•052915) Being a color run ‘kinda-guy’ I just gotta’ say ‘‘Who doesn’t love Scroll Flasks?” Don’t cringe, I guess I coulda’ called this “Scrolling thru some Scrolls.” Anyway, credit for this post … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Historical Flasks | Tagged American Glass Gallery, Arabia, Clevenger Brothers, Color, Cowan's, Dana Charlton-Zarro, Flask, Fleur-de-lis, Glass International, Glass Works, Historic Bottles, Historic Glasshouse, Ian Simmonds, lancaster, McKearin, Mike Stephano, Mitchell, Newman, Norman C. Heckler, Saxe, Scroll, Vanderbilt | 1 Comment

Bennett & Carroll – Figural Barrel Series

Posted on 14 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

BENNETT & CARROL(L) PITTSBURG(H) Earlier this year I did a comprehensive series on most of the great figural barrels. I knew I had missed a few odd ones such as the Bennett & Carrol barrel (note spelling of Carrol missing … Continue reading →

Posted in Auction News, Chestnut, Early American Glass, Figural Bottles, Spirits, Whiskey | Tagged American Glass Gallery, Barrel, Bennett, Carol, Carroll, Figural, Heckler, Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, Whiskey | Leave a comment

Could we have a 2016 Mega Expo and a 2020 International Antique Glass Festival?

Posted on 9 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Hi Ferdinand, I went to the Springfield Insulator show last weekend and was approached by three different high end insulator people about exploring the possibility of the Federation and NIA getting together in the future to collaborate on a national … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Bottle Shows, Breweriana, Club News, Early American Glass, FOHBC News, Fruit Jars, Insulators, News, Perfume, Poison Bottles, Questions, Soda Water | Tagged APBCA, Event, Expo, festival, fohbc, international, Jamie Houdeshell, NAMBC, national, NIA, Quilt, show, VBCA | 5 Comments

“In keeping with the Dr. Townsend’s theme started by others”

Posted on 4 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Looks like we have some really nice dialog and pictures of older Dr. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla’s over at Early American Glass on facebook from the usual suspects like Rick Ciralli, Mark Yates, Jeff Noordsy, Woody Douglas, Matt Greig, Michael George, Taylor … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Facebook, Glass Companies & Works, Sarsaparilla | Tagged Albany Glassworks, Coventry, Dr. Townsend, Jeff Noordsy, Lancaster Glass Works, Lockport Glass Works, Mark Yates, Matt Greig, Matthew Tigue Levanti, Michael George, Mt Pleasant, Mt. Vernon Glass Works, Rick Ciralli, Stoddard, Taylor McBurney, Willington, Woody Douglas | Leave a comment

Historical Flasks worth watching in American Glass Gallery Auction #9

Posted on 2 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

American Glass Gallery | Auction #9 Just getting a notification today that American Glass Gallery has opened the Internet portal for their exciting Auction #9. I was also able to closely look at the auction catalog during my 3+ hour … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Auction News, Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Flasks, Glass Companies & Works, Historical Flasks, News | Tagged American Glass Gallery, Anchor, Baltimore, Blaske, circled the folowing, Connecticut, Coventry, Eagle, flasks, Fleur-de-lis, George McKearin, GI-83, GI-84, GII-31, GIV-13a, GIV-14, GIX-41, GVIII-25, Historical, Jeff Noordsy, John Pastor, John Robinson, Kentucky, Lafayette, Louisville, Mark Vuono, maryland, Masonic, Moulded, Pattern, Paul Richards, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, sandor fuss, Scroll, Spiller, sunburst, Terry Gillis | Leave a comment

Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont

Posted on 27 October 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Hi Ferdinand, Here is a little teaser for those who might be heading to next summer’s FOHBC event in Manchester, New Hampshire. We shot these images this fall while visiting the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont (just south of Burlington, … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Apothecary, Druggist & Drugstore, Early American Glass, FOHBC News, Folk Art, Glass Companies & Works, History, Museums, Whimsies | Tagged Canes, fohbc, Glass, Libby Glass, Manchester, museum, New Hampshire, Shelburne, Steve Ketcham, Vermont | 1 Comment

Looking at Daly’s Aromatic Valley Whisky…with Sandy

Posted on 26 October 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Northeast in crosshairs of ‘superstorm’ Sandy Looking at Daly’s Aromatic Valley Whisky…with Sandy 26 October 2012 I sit in my room with my grandson Nicolas at a resort on the seventh floor of a beach-front condominium on the outer banks … Continue reading →