Ball Canning Jars
For those of us who love canning, nothing says fresh like a Ball Jar. But it hasn’t been that way just for modern people trying to save money and make healthy meals for their family. Ball has been...
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Cookie Jar Collecting
Themes like the circus were popular design patterns for early glass cookie jars.The average person thinking of cookie jars does not think “glass.” Rather we’ve become accustom to pottery. However, the...
View ArticleAntique Canning Jars: Atlas jars
Settled in Wheeling, WV, the Hazel-Atlas company started in 1902 when two parent companies (Atlas Glass, WA and Hazel Glass, PA) merged. The keynote item for this business was fruit jars. Overall...
View ArticleThatcher Glassware
Thatcher Glass Manufacturing began in 1889, under the name of Thatcher Mfg., in New York. Little did anyone know that they would design the machinery to produce milk bottles via automation. This...
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Libbey Glass Collectibles
Libbey Glass Company began their business life named the New England Glass Company. They produced a wide variety of glassware, and in the end expanded their business to sheet glass and windshields,...
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Collecting Old Bottles
Most of us collect glassware in patterns, dinnerware, stemware and blown glass, but there’s a "whole nother world" out there so to speak, that can be interesting historically, fun to pursue and quite...
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Antique–and Not So Antique–Canning Jars
Those who collect canning jars, and even those who don’t will often find a jar at the local flea market, which has the embossing on it, proclaiming it 1858.. and be thrilled with their find....
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Reproduction Glass
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View ArticleFostoria Bells
The Fostoria Glass Company, makers of those beautiful commemorative bells, much to everyones amazement, didn’t even begin to offer them until the mid seventies. Although they made gorgeous wedding...
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Owens Illinois
Most glass collectors have most likely heard of Owens-Illinois, Inc. In 2005, the company changed its trade name to O-I. About a half of every glass container in the world is made by either O-I, its...
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