For price information on window glass and on the development of cylinder
blown widow glass I recommend *The Development of the American Glass
Industry* by Pearce Davis.  1949 Harvard Economic Studies Volume LXXXVI
published in 1949 and reprinted by Russell & Russell in 1970.  This is a
classic on the subject of the development of the American glass industry.

Peace,
George L. Miller

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:08 PM, David Moyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> There's a lot of behavior that can be gleaned from things as mundane as
> window glass. For example, instead of lumping window glass in with the
> bricks frags, nails etc. and "architectural refuse" how about classifying it
> in the lighting category along side chimney glass, etc.?> fenestration is
> likely corrrelated with the amounts of other lighting-related artifacts in
> household deposits.
>
> Karl Rohnke pointed out that window glass could also be reclassified as a
> medicinal artifact, since bluish tints were thought to be thereputic during
> the "blue glass mania." Once it fell out of fashion some this blue glass
> ended up out west and sold cheap.
>
> And then there's looking at post-abandonment processes, vandalism, rates of
> repair, window salvage prior to demolition.... I guess my point is that
> those big variables that make status-related statements using window glass
> so risky are exactly the kinds of things we should be looking at, rather
> than the classic dating formulas, etc...
>
> my two cents,
>
> Dave Moyer
>
> --- On Wed, 5/11/11, Mark Branstner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > From: Mark Branstner <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Early 19th Century window glass
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 3:58 PM
> > Daniel,
> >
> > I have absolutely nothing useful to add to this discussion,
> > but the
> > general idea of quantifying window glass and correlating it
> > with any
> > status measurement seems so fraught with unknown variables
> > that I
> > can't imagine how it could possibly work, or even if it
> > looked like
> > it did, how you could possibly verify your conclusions.
> >
> > Respectfully,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >These sites are all adjacent to one another along the
> > same road, so
> > >availability due to transport shouldn't have been a
> > primary factor in
> > >the amount of flat glass on each site. I suspect the
> > most likely route
> > >would have been overland via the Maysville Road and to
> > the road via
> > >river traffic on the Ohio, though some glass could have
> > come via the
> > >Kentucky River and Frankfort - there aren't many
> > options for river
> > >travel where the sites are located. Our first railroad,
> > the Lexington
> > >and Ohio, wasn't operational until 1833 and didn't
> > actually go to Ohio.
> > >It eventually found its way to Louisville but that
> > wasn't until 1850 or
> > >so and by then, my sites were pretty much abandoned.
> > I've found
> > >references for glass factories in Louisville, but they
> > post-date site
> > >abandonment as well. There were glass factories in
> > mid-Ohio by the early
> > >1800s, but I don't know if they produced flat glass -
> > they seem mainly
> > >to have been involved in bottles.
> > >
> > >Anybody ever compare CCI values to frequencies of
> > window glass on
> > >multiple historic sites?
> > >
> > >Daniel B. Davis
> > >Archaeologist Coordinator
> > >Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
> > >Division of Environmental Analysis
> > >200 Mero Street
> > >Frankfort, KY 40622
> > >(502) 564-7250
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On Behalf Of
> > >Doms, Keith
> > >Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 4:30 PM
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Re: Early 19th Century window glass
> > >
> > >Cost is one factor.  Also it might be a measure of
> > availability due to
> > >ease of transportation Viz. Improving road networks,
> > regular river boat
> > >traffic, canals, and early railroads
> > >
> > >KRD
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On Behalf Of
> > >Davis, Daniel (KYTC)
> > >Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:40 PM
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Early 19th Century window glass
> > >
> > >Good afternoon!
> > >
> > >Can anyone direct me toward references for early 19th
> > century window
> > >glass in the eastern US - that aren't for dating the
> > associated
> > >structures? Specifically, I'm looking for information
> > on price and
> > >availability and operating under the assumption that
> > more window glass
> > >on a site for this time period will directly associate
> > with a higher
> > >socioeconomic status for the site's occupants. I've got
> > 4 sites in
> > >central Kentucky that date from around 1790 to 1840 and
> > based on the
> > >excavations to date, there is significant variance in
> > the amount of
> > >window glass from each site. I'm guessing the window
> > glass types would
> > >be blown plate, crown, or cylinder glass though I don't
> > think there's a
> > >good way to separate the types.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Daniel B. Davis
> > >Archaeologist Coordinator
> > >Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
> > >Division of Environmental Analysis
> > >200 Mero Street
> > >Frankfort, KY 40622
> > >(502) 564-7250
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Mark C. Branstner, RPA
> > Historic Archaeologist
> >
> > Illinois State Archaeological Survey
> > Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability
> > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> > 209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
> > 23 East Stadium Drive
> > Champaign, IL 61820
> >
> > Phone: 217.244.0892
> > Fax: 217.244.7458
> > Cell: 517.927.4556
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > "I hope that was an empty bottle, George! You can't afford
> > to waste
> > good liquor. Not on your salary, not on an associate
> > professor's
> > salary!" Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) as 'Martha' in 'Who's
> > Afraid of
> > Virginia Woolf'
> >
>