North American Glass Web Site
If you are looking for Fruit Jars and related information I suggest you connect with Greg Spurgeon who directs North American Glass. I signed up and receive email notes for all his auctions which are primary centered around Fruit Jars. There are other areas represented so you need to keep an eye on his auction news.
It seems like Greg is the man for selling Fruit Jars. I really enjoy watching the variety of jars that continually show up on his web site.
About Ferdinand Meyer V
Ferdinand Meyer V is a native of Baltimore, Maryland and has a BFA in Fine Art and Graphic Design from the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design. Ferdinand is the founding Principal of FMG Design, Inc., a nationally recognized design consultation firm. Ferdinand is a passionate collector of American historical glass, specializing in bitters bottles, color runs, and related classic figural bottles. Ferdinand is married to Elizabeth Jane Meyer and lives in Houston, Texas, with their daughter and three wonderful grandchildren. The Meyers are also very involved in gardening (Peachridge Gardens), antiques (Peachridge Collections), and early United States postage stamps. Ferdinand is the past three-term president of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, a long-time board member, FOHBC 2021 Hall of Fame, and one of the founding members of the FOHBC Virtual Museum.
For those canning jar collectors in the West who covet the jars from the western glassworks such as the Pacific Glassworks Victory jar or the San Francisco Glass Works jar; there is another jar that is probably not very well known among the jar collectors about its history of origin. The GRAINGER jar was conceived and manufactured by Carlton Newman. Bits of history on this jar can be found in the recently published book EARLY GLASSWORKS OF CALIFORNIA.