Baltimore Beer Bottles

#95

Private squat Weiss Beer mold. Some blown by JB.

Amber Blob 7 inch R

Amber Blob 8 1/2 inch VR

Aqua Blob C

Clear Blob C

Blue Blob with a tombstone outline VR

#100

Private squat Weiss Beer mold. Some blown by JB and EHE. Some aqua ABM.

Aqua Blob C

Clear Blob R

#105

Private squat Weiss Beer mold. No glasshouses identified.

Clear Blob R

#95

Tombstone outline

#110

Private squat Weiss Beer mold. No glasshouses identified.

Aqua Blob VR

Clear Blob R

#115

Private lager beer mold. No glasshouses identified. All examples ABM.

Clear Crown U

#125

Vertical oval slugplate with no glasshouses identified.

Aqua Loopseal Deadman

#127

#125

Round slugplate with no glasshouses identified.

Aqua Loopseal Deadman

#130

#125

#130

Round slugplate. Several molds used from 1893-1999 with no glasshouses identified.

Aqua Loopseal C

Clear Loopseal VR

#135

#130

Privat mold, several variants used from 1893-1999 blown by EHE and EHE Co.

Aqua Loopseal C

#140

Round slugplate. Several molds use with no glasshouses identified.

Amber ACS U

Amber unidentified patent closure U

#145

Horizontal oval slugplate. Quart/picnic sized bottle with no glasshouses identified.

Amber ACS R

Amber unidentified patent closure R

#150

Horizontal oval slugplate. Quart/picnic sized bottle with no glasshouses identified.

*Error: slugplate placed into the mold rotated 180 degrees (backwards)

Amber ACS Deadman

Amber unidentified patent closure Deadman

#155

Additional research has shown that this example was used during Prohibition.

#150

Reverse slugplate quart

Baltimore Glass Works 1799-1893

At the foot of Federal Hill, the Baltimore Glass Works of Frederick M. Amelung & Company was the new venture of John Frederick Magnus Amelung, Alexander Furnival, Jacob Anhurtz and former Etna superintendent Lewis Reppert.

Though this initial partnership was ill starred from the outset, dissolving within three years partly due to the Amelung family debts that came with it, it can be said that the legacy of the early Frederick County glass artisans was carried over to the inception of the Baltimore Glass Works, which was to exemplify the style and characteristics of the German glassmaker’s trade for decades to come.