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I have collected glass attributed to John Frederick Amelung now for the last three years.While 100 percent attribution is virtually impossible traits, colors and where the glass objects were found along with geneological ascension help narrow down the certainty.This post will not be completed today but I will show the glassworks locale from a google sattelite map image with text added showing where the works were located, the mansion John Frederick Amelung lived in, and the location of the works he purchased from Conrad Foltz, and George and Balsar Kramer. These were Maryland's greatest glassworks and produced some of the very best American made glass in our countrys beginings.Matt (Guntherhess) you must also live pretty close to these works .It looks as though a baseball diamond is located just to the west of the Glass house site.Are these grounds privatley owned or are they part of some park system.It would be great to revist thje site of the 1962 Corning/Smithsonian archaelogical dig and scour around for maybe some fragments from the buildings.Heavy rains as you know can brings things to sufaces long forgotten.I will post some glass which has real strong historical connections to the area of the original German settlements in the Urbana district.

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Matt could you take a ride over there when you have some spare time and check it out.It looks like a road dirt in nature runs right along the area. Maybe you could park by the ball field and walk back to where I show the site.Here is a drawing showing the view from amelungs house to the glass works.It is deffinatley travelling down hill as described.The Monoacy river rose 10 feet above its banks and also did considerable damage to the glass works during their time of operation.

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I think Phil mentioned something about wanting to go scope the place out.
I need to check my old frederick map collection, not sure they show that far south.
 

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Matt I based the glass works site in proximity to a map I have scanned and on the description in the original deed of land of the site.I am very confident that where I show the factory buildings on the aerial picture is in deed where they are.Here is an original map showing the location of the mansion and two factory buildings still standing in the early 1800s.

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Article from the 60s discussing the dig on the Amelung site...

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I have shown this bottle here before but Ill show it again.This bottle I aquired from an auction in Maryland not far from Frederick two years ago.
The bottle is a case bottle,blown in the half post method.The engraving on the front and back is of a tulip which appears on a lot of early German glassware.
The pontil has an orange substance in it which a lot of Amelungs bottles had.I have been told the soil is that color and the gaffers would dust the end of the punty rod in the red soil to help break the rod from the glass when ready.The bottle is ten inches tall 4 inches wide and 2 and a half inches thick.

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The date inscribed on the front and back of the bottle reads 1792 which would put it in Amelungs range of operation.
This bottle remained with the same family in Germantown Maryland for over 150 years.

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