Category Archives: Windows

Forbes Visit, off the Pacific Coast of Big Sur

Posted on 11 April 2014 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Forbes Visit, off the Pacific Coast of Big Sur Light, Reflection & Shadow 11 April 2014 My last hurrah and setting sun from my magnificent and recent west coast bottle trip was saved for last when I visited my good … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Color Runs, Display, Photography, Windows | Tagged bay, Big, bitters, Borbes, california, Carmel, Cutter, Figural, Helen, house, Jerry, light, Morro, Mountain, Pacific, reflection, road, shadow, Sur, tree | 2 Comments

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 Dowesburgh/Albany Glass House 1785-1815

Posted on 11 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The Dowesburgh | Albany Glass House 1785 – 1815 Part 4 of a Series by Stephen Atkinson 11 September 2013 Leaving the town of Albany, New York, heading west on Route 20, you will arrive in Guilderland, about six miles west … Continue reading →

Posted in Article Publications, Blown Glass, Demijohns, Digging and Finding, Early American Glass, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Utility Bottles, Windows | Tagged Abraham Staats, Albany, Amsterdam, Anti-Rent War, Christopher Batterman, Demijohn, Dowesburgh, Ferdinand Walfahrt, Guilderland, Hamilton, Hamilton Manufacturing Society, Hungerskill, James Caldwell, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Johannes Heefke, John Adams, John Sanders, Leenert De'Nuefville, McClallen, McGregor, McGregor & Co., New York, Stephen Atkinson, Thomas Mather & Co. | Leave a comment

The New York State Glass Factories

Posted on 7 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

The New York State Glass Factories Preface of a Series | New Amsterdam by Stephen Atkinson 07 September 2013 Below is a 1640 map of New York City, known then as New Amsterdam. As you can see, the area was … Continue reading →

Posted in Article Publications, Black Glass, Blown Glass, Early American Glass, Glass Companies & Works, Glass Makers, History, Questions, Utility Bottles, Windows | Tagged Canal Street, Christian Hertell, Cornelis Dirkson, dutch, Evert Duycking, factory, gaffer, Germany, Glass Makers Street, Jacob Melyer, Jansen, Johann Martin Greiner, Johannes Smedes, Lodewick Bamper, Matthew Earnest, New Amsterdam, New York City, Peter Stuyvesant, Samuel Bayard, Van Cortland Museum, Wilhelm Henry Stiegel | Leave a comment

Different bottles same color, same bottles different colors

Posted on 5 September 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Different bottles same color, same bottles different colors… Steve Mello 05 September 2013 More: Steve Mello with a Window Shade and Bottles

Posted in Color, Flasks, Photography, Spirits, Windows | Tagged Color, colors, photography, Steve Mello, windows | Leave a comment

Great Window Shots dominating the news

Posted on 15 March 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

As some of you know, here at Peachridge, we put our bottles in windows down here in southeast Texas as available wall space and basements are few and far between. Natural light can bring out the strongest characteristics of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Collectors & Collections, Color, Color Runs, Display, Early American Glass, Figural Bottles, Photography, Windows | Tagged photography, sun, sunlight, window | 1 Comment

Some Nice Congress & Empire Spring Bottles – Shags to Riches

Posted on 23 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

SHAGS TO RICHES (not by far) When Elizabeth and I first moved into the long vacant house on property we now affectionately call Peach Ridge, it had shag carpet (see above), an old decrepit boat in the garage and had … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Art & Architecture, Article Publications, Auction News, Collectors & Collections, Humor - Lighter Side, Mineral Water, Peachridge Glass, Water, Whimsies, Windows | Tagged Buddy L, Columbian, Congress, Congress Park, delmarva, Drinking, Elizabeth, Empire, Glass Works Auctions, Houston, Mineral, New York, Peach Ridge, Saltillo, Saratoga, shag, Springs, water, Whimsie | Leave a comment

Grocery Stores from Yesteryear

Posted on 11 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

H I S T O R I C A L P H O T O G R A P H S There have been a number of historical photograph galleries this past year on Peachridge Glass such as Colorado Saloons, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ephemera, History, Liquor Merchant, Peachridge Glass, Photography, Windows | Tagged August Storz, C.D. Rake, Charles E. Miller, Clarence Saunders, Coca-Cola, Elbert T. Osborne, Fisher, Groceries, Grocery, J.F. Barker & Co., L.H. Marsh, Litsch, Maison Laurent, merchandise, merchant, Old Murphy Grocery Store, Piggly Wiggly, R.M. Richards, Roth Brothers, S.N. Lopez Co., Spiro Obradovich, store, Volkert, Wheeler's Boston Branch Grocery, Williams Brothers | Leave a comment

Pictures of the Week (06 January 2013)

Posted on 6 January 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

This is the first weekly round-up of some really nice photography from various antique bottle and glass web sites that have surfaced in the previous week. It seems that winter sunlight and new snow has influenced many of still life … Continue reading →

Posted in Apothecary, Bitters, Collectors & Collections, Demijohns, Display, Early American Glass, Historical Flasks, Inks, Insulators, Medicines & Cures, Peachridge Glass, Photography, Windows | Tagged Dale Mlasko, Dave Kam, Ferdinand Meyer V, Herbert Cable, James Campiglia, Jeff Noordsy, John Panella, Larry Baumann, Mark Rose, Mark Yates, Michael George, Rick Ciralli, Tom Marshall, Utah Antique Bottle Cliche | 1 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 →