Category Archives: Museums

Mailbox Letters – March 2013

Posted on 5 March 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

March Mail starting to pile up again. Thanks for all of the emails and information everyone. Meeting a Collector on My Flight to Baltimore Hello Ferdinand, It was a pleasure meeting you and learning about glass on the flight the … Continue reading →

Posted in Breweriana, Digging and Finding, Flasks, Historical Flasks, Mailbox Letters, Museums, Pot Lids, Pottery, Questions | Tagged Brothers, brown, Frish, mail, museum, Pottery, Walters | Leave a comment

Lightning Rod Exhibit at the Franklin Institute

Posted on 21 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

F – Thought you’d find interesting. (Some Executive at) AMC Pictures collects LIGHTNING RODS. Dealer Ted Storb in Connecticut sold many of these to him. JEFF (FROGGY) BURKHARDT Hi All, Jeanne and I visited family in Philadelphia last weekend and … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Collectors & Collections, Display, Early American Glass, History, Lightning Rod Balls, Museums, News | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, exhibit, Jeff Burkhardt, Lightning, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Rod, scientist, statesman, Ted Storb, The Franklin Institute | Leave a comment

Daily Dose – January 2013

Posted on 3 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 3 Section dedicated to daily thoughts and interests Thursday, 31 January 2013 Wow, this month just went by so fast. Christmas seems so long ago. Back in Houston, dodged … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Bottles and Extras, Daily Dose, Figural Bottles, Flasks, FOHBC News, History, Humor - Lighter Side, Museums, News, Postage, Spirits, Tax Stamps, Whiskey | Tagged Baltimore, Bill Taylor, bitters, Daily Dose, Drakes, fohbc, Galveston, Jeff Burkhardt, John April, Kansas City, Kentucky, Lexington, Michael Stresau, National Postal Museum, news, Pittsburgh | Leave a comment

New Shelf Displays for Colorado Collector

Posted on 29 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Sandor Fuss sent in a few pictures of his new, killer display units and gave permission to post some of his great bottles. Sandor has been very much influenced by his visits to museums around the country (read: Some historical glass … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Figural Bottles, Historical Flasks, Museums, News | Tagged Denver, display, Historical Glass, museum, sandor fuss | 1 Comment

“knife-edged” Pitkins made by “that guy”

Posted on 27 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Hi Ferd, This Sunday a week ago, the annual members’ meeting of the Museum of Connecticut Glass was held at the Manchester Connecticut Historical Society. One of the highlights was an outstanding presentation by Tom Haunton on 20th Century South Jersey … Continue reading →

Posted in Club News, Collectors & Collections, Early American Glass, Flasks, Freeblown Glass, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Museums, News, Questions | Tagged Connecticut, Dana Charlton-Zarro, Historical, knife-edge, Manchester, museum, Pitkin, Pitkin Glass Works, Society, South Jersey, Thomas Haunton, Tom Duff | 2 Comments

The New Bedford Museum of Glass

Posted on 27 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The New Bedford Museum of Glass Dear Mr. Meyer, I was speaking with our mutual friend Ken Previtali at a recent glass lecture in Connecticut (Thomas Haunton’s talk on Clevenger glass), and he suggested that I get in touch with … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Display, Early American Glass, FOHBC News, History, Museums, News, Questions | Tagged Bottles and Extras, Clevenger, fohbc, Glass, Ken Previtali, Kirk J. Nelson, Massachusetts, MNew Bedford, museum, Thomas Haunton | Leave a comment

Historical Canteens – Canteen Figural Bottles

Posted on 19 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

HISTORICAL CANTEENS Canteen Figural Bottles 19 July 2013 (R•102913) (R•012415) (R•022115) (R•082615) Jim Hagenbuch has one of the finest H. A. GRAEF’S SON N.Y. CANTEEN bottles I have ever seen at his Glass Works Auction #96 “Cabin Fever” auction that … Continue reading →

Posted in Auction News, Civil War, Figural Bottles, Flasks, Folk Art, History, Museums, Pottery, Stoneware, Water | Tagged A. S. Campbell Co. Boston, Acoma, Bulgari, Canteen, Chinese Ming Dynasty, Civil War, Cowan's, Eugene Smith, Glass Works Auctions, H.A. Graef, Holmegaard Glasværk, Hopi, Isaac Whitehead, Jim Hagenbuch, Kentucky, Korean War, Louisville, New York, Norman C. Heckler, Revolutionary War, Seigler | Leave a comment

1865 San Francisco Directory – All Quiet before the Quake

Posted on 27 December 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

1865 San Francisco Directory All Quiet before the Quake SAN FRANCISCO – 1865 27 December 2012 Interesting to look at the innocence of an 1865 San Francisco business directory right before the first great earth quake. With all of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Ales & Ciders, Bitters, Breweriana, Glass Companies & Works, History, Liquor Merchant, Medicines & Cures, Mineral Water, Museums, Spirits, Whiskey, Wine & Champagne | Tagged 1865, bitters, California Wine Bitters, Cassin's Grape Brandy Bitters, directory, Distillery, Dow's, Earthquake, Francis Cassin, Glass, Hoelscher & Wieland, J.H. Cutter's O.K. No. 1 Bourbon Whisky, Lacour's Bitters, Louis Lacour, M. Keller, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Gray, Pacific Congress Water, Pacific Glass Works, Pacific Museum, Quartz, Rosenbaums, Sainsevain's, Sam Clemens, San Francisco, Sonoma Red and White Wines, Steamer Day, Telegraph Hill, Thomas E. Finley, Vincent Squarza | Leave a comment

Bottles on the Steamship SS Republic

Posted on 24 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

BOTTLES ON THE S T E A M S H I P S S R E P U B L I C 24 November 2012 I wanted to circle back after honing up on the Steamboat Arabia (Read: Looking … Continue reading →

Posted in Bitters, Civil War, Collectors & Collections, Digging and Finding, Diving, eBay, History, Museums, Pepper Sauce, Pickle Jars, Pottery, Questions, Spirits, Treasure | Tagged 49'ers, Admiral David G. Farragut, Baltimore, Battle of Mobile Bay, california, Confederate, Fells Point, Georgia, Gold Rush, Hurricane, John W. Lovitt, Mexico, New Orleans, Nicaragua, Russell Sturgis, Savannah, Sierra Nevada, SS Republic, Steamship, Tennessee, Union, USS Mobile, Vera Cruz, William Walker | 1 Comment

Looking for Bottles Carried on the Steamboat Arabia

Posted on 16 November 2012 by Ferdinand Meyer V

T H E S T E A M B O A T A R A B I A Looking at famed Civil War author Jim Schmidt’s interview with Andrew W. Hall and the Galveston-Houston Packet this morning made me … Continue reading →