Bottledigging,thursday 26.3.09

[Erdspiegel]

Started bottledigging again;had a quite good day:

finds reaches from imperial germany up to early days of GDR

 

[Harry Pristis]

That is an diverse group of finds! I see a number of items that I recognize from German eBay and many that I have not seen before. I have a couple of ground-lip ODOL bottles on my shelf.

Actually, I have a number of German-made bottles here, as I think about it -- nineteenth century bottles.

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These embossed demijohns are German-made, but I have never had good information on the source. The "black forest" region seems vague. Do you have some information, book reference or hyperlink, on early glass production in Germany?

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[Erdspiegel]

That is an diverse group of finds! I see a number of items that I recognize from German eBay and many that I have not seen before. I have a couple of ground-lip ODOL bottles on my shelf.

Actually, I have a number of German-made bottles here, as I think about it -- nineteenth century bottles.

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These embossed demijohns are German-made, but I have never had good information on the source. The "black forest" region seems vague. Do you have some information, book reference or hyperlink, on early glass production in Germany?

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The kinds of your bottles is called "Waldglas" (forest-glass) in Germany.I don't find collectors pages,but some information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_glass

more detailed:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldglas

list of museums:
http://www.hvg-dgg.de/museen/allgaeu-museum-kempten.html

forestglass-page about different histories:
http://www.waldglas.com/index.html

 

[Harry Pristis]

Thank you for the links. I spent some time exploring, but I did not find a site that just presents Hohlglas (bottle glass) in the manner we collect and display it. All the museum sites post images of one or two teaser pieces -- art glass, I'd call it -- but no utilitarian glass. The Mecklenburger Waldglasmuseum was the worst for teasing, showing a few bottles in the background of some images.

Are there any collectors who have web-sites to show off their utilitarian glass? I know there are bottle collectors in Germany. Are there any bottle collector web-sites?

This case bottle (on the right) is almost certainly German (or possibly Dutch):

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[Erdspiegel]

I think there are no german collector web-sites.Don't know one.
I googled for sites,but without a result.

I know a few elder collectors of different glasses and bottles,but they don't own a PC.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I think there are no german collector web-sites.Don't know one.
I googled for sites,but without a result.

I know a few elder collectors of different glasses and bottles,but they don't own a PC.

Too bad! That makes YOU the on-line representative of all those German bottle collectors! You are the de facto expert on antique German bottles here. Congratulations!

Fortunately for all of us, you make good images and write very well in English.

I hope you'll show us more of the bottles that are your favorites. Help us learn more about German bottles.

-----Harry Pristis

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