Steve/sewell
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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.