FOODS & CANNING JARS
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SAN
FRANCISCO / GLASS WORKS - Quart fruit jar. Here is a rare
and desirable Western made wax sealer fruit jar dating from the 1870s. The
glass is a classic "SFGW" bluish aqua, 7 1/2" tall, with applied (pressed on
ring) wax seal type finish. It has the classic SFGW "curved R's" which
were apparently a stylistic trade mark of a particular mold cutter working for
the SFGW and later for the SF&PGW. Click
HERE for a close-up of
the embossing. There is also the usual blanked out plate curving above the
San Francisco where the "Cutting & Co" (I think that is right) embossing was
removed from the original configuration of the mold. After this mold was
used for the SFGW jars, all this embossing was blanked or "slugged" out in order
to make the "M. Seller & Co. / Portland, O." fruit jar in the early
1880s most likely (talk about recycling!). The glass is crude, whittled,
and bubbly and the wax seal lip is crudely applied...the way we like them.
The jar is largely mint though has/had a very small chip on the outer edge of the lip
which has been repaired quite well, though the epoxy/resin does have a slight
yellowish cast to it upon very close inspection. This repair was
reportedly (from the seller I acquired it from) done by Marty Hall who is well
known in the West for quality work. The repair appears to be only about 1/2" + or - long
and very shallow
(<1/4"
deep) and something I wouldn't have bothered to have done. Click
HERE to see a close-up of
the repair on the lip which is pointed out with an arrow. There is also
some neat crudeness to the inner ring just inside the repair which is not a
chip, but totally in-making. Bottle used for and pictured on the
Historic Bottle Website.
A very nice jar which makes it easy
to see why someone did take the trouble to repair the small chip - "damage" that
is very minimal but enough to lower the price by several hundreds.
$350
I also have a fine half-gallon example of this same jar (pictured to right) with the same embossing details as the quart size (i.e., ex-Cutting & Co. mold that later morphed into the M. Seller & Co. jar) except that this jar is essentially perfectly mint with no chips, dings, flea bites, cracks or staining...and it appears to have never been cleaned. (Includes an original wax seal cap which is not shown in the image.) Both sizes of this jar are are quite rare though the half-gallon is seen much less often. This is a nice blue aqua jar also. Click close-up of the embossing to see such (embossing is stronger than the images implies) as well as some of the seed bubbles in the glass. (Note: The color in this linked image is a bit more blue than in real life; the image of the jar above is pretty accurate.) Email me for additional images or any questions. Great - and quite rare - examples of glassworks marked Western glass...which are well undervalued in my opinion. (Note: One of these with a small lip chip sold for $1000 [with commission] at a Glass Works Auction in February 2008; this is at least as good an example in my opinion.) $695
...or both sizes of the SFGW jars for $995!
Early
black glass sauce bottle - This is a nice relatively early (1860-1875)
sauce bottle that most likely held "oyster ketchup" as almost identically shaped
bottles with embossing are known (i.e., those popular, though rare, bottles
embossed SHRIVER'S OYSTER KETCHUP BALTIMORE). This example was dug
as part of the "Great San Francisco Dig" of the late 1990s and was reportedly
found along with some of the Shriver's bottles; a pretty sure confirmation that
it indeed held that product too in addition to sharing the same shape (form
follows function...usually). The bottle is 8 1/2" tall, has a crudely
applied single collar, was blown in a three-piece mold, and has a domed though
smooth (no pontil) base - click
base view to see such. This bottle is in very good condition with
glossy clean dark olive-amber glass (a few scuff marks here and there) with
scattered bubbles and some body crudeness. It has no cracks or significant
issues although it does have some minor lip roughness on one side of the lip rim
which appears to be largely in-making as it is associated with some tooling
crudeness. Additionally, there is one small (2-3 mm wide & 3-4 mm
long), very flat flake off the lip rim edge that is not associated with the
crudeness. I procured this bottle specifically to picture as an "early"
style sauce bottle on the Historic
Bottle Website on the Food Bottles & Canning Jars page where
it is described further; click
HERE to view
that page. Priced well I think for a rare - and very esthetic -
bottle form even with the lip rim roughness. $50
SWIRLED
PEPPER SAUCE - As noted when I sold a set of these bottles last year
(still listed below), I can't think of any other bottle that is more beautiful
for under $100 than these peppersauce bottles in brilliant emerald green and
deep blue green. This one is the brilliant emerald green variant and is
approx. 8" tall, smooth base with the embossing S. & P. / PAT. APP. FOR., American ca. 1890's. The S.
& P. stands for Stickney & Poor of Boston, Mass. an important
"food" company of the 19th century. This example is mint condition
with no stains, cracks, chips, or any observable problems. If these aren't
the best looking window bottles you can imagine (for the price) I don't know
what would be. Not much more to say about it...just look at the picture.
$65
Fluted
catsup or sauce bottle - I purchased this bottle purely to use and
picture on the Historic
Bottle Website on the Food Bottles & Canning Jars page. It
is described and pictured there - click
HERE to
view it. Now it is time to sell it as I can't keep everything. This
bottle is a bluish aqua, 9.2" tall, has a true applied double ring lip or finish, smooth
base, and dates from the 1870s...it is one of the earlier bottles associated
with catsup. Condition is good though does have some internal haze and a
couple very small nicks to the sharply edged heel. There is also some base
wear indicating that this bottle was used extensively or sat somewhere for a
long time, even though the content haze indicates it was buried a long time too.
This is an indicator that the bottle was re-used extensively before discarding.
Click close-up of the
shoulder, neck and lip to see such. Priced accordingly.
$12
SUNFLOWER
/ DAIRY / ASTORIA, OREGON - A nice Astoria, Oregon half pint orange ACL
(Applied Color Label/Lettering) milk or cream bottle that has the following on
the reverse (Health
& Energy IN EVERY GLASS) with a 30s/40s dressed gal (looks kind of like
Little Orphan Annie without the empty eyes) firmly holding a milk bottle.
The
base is embossed with the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. makers mark that
vaguely resembles the ringed planet Saturn (also called the "diamond O-I" mark)
and indicates manufacture at plant #22 (Tracy, CA.) in 1944 most likely ("4"
date code and the DURAGLAS embossing). There is also a nice valve
mark on the base indicating manufacture by a press-and-blow machine - the
typical type machine used for milk bottle (and fruit jar) production from the
early 1900s until at least the 1950s. This little bottle is perfectly mint
to my eye with no wear or chipping of the ACL and
includes the cap for the same dairy. This bottle was purchased to
illustrate the milk bottle section of the
Historic Bottle Website
and it is time to pass it on to someone else.
$15
Gothic/cathedral
peppersauce bottle - The cathedral - or "gothic" - type food (pickle and
pepper sauce primarily) bottles are always popular with collectors since they
are so esthetically shaped. This pepper sauce example is from the 1860s,
is six-sided with an applied double lip/finish (aka double ring finish), just
over 8.5" tall, and has an "S" embossed in the center of the early "key" mold
base (a true two-piece mold bottle typical of the Civil War and prior era).
This bottle certainly dates from the mid-1860s as it was blown in the same
mold as the gothic peppersauce bottles found on the SS Republic which
sunk off the Georgia coast in October of 1865. How do I know this?
I've kindly received images from the archaeologist with the underwater
exploration group that found and salvaged the SS Republic. (Images
graciously sent in support of my work on the Historic Bottle Website.) A
comparison of the close-up base image they provided with this bottle confirms
that the SS Republic bottles and this bottle were blown in the same mold.
Given that the mold life of utilitarian bottles like this was relatively short,
it can be confidently concluded that this bottle dates from the same era, i.e.,
the late Civil War period of 1864-1865. The offered bottle is perfect in
that it has no cracks, chips, dings, flea bites, or other damage. It does
have some relatively light staining that isn't too distracting. In fact,
it is somewhat nice looking as it contributes an fiery iridescent rainbow hue to
the bottle. This iridescence does show a little in the
close-up of the shoulder,
neck, and finish image, though it is more distinct in real life.
Nature's "carnival glass" some call it. This bottle was used for and
pictured on the
Historic Bottle Website at this link:
http://www.sha.org/bottle/food.htm#Gothic%20sauce
Nice bottle with a firmly established date of right at the end of the Civil
War( for you Civil War enactment buffs). $65
ON HOLD!
Selected
Queen Olives - Central Union Ass'n, New Bedford, MASS. - Here is another
nice label only (no embossing on body; 32 on the base) wide mouth "vase"
olive bottle that has (obviously) never been buried as it retains it original
body and neck labels. The bottle is 9.25" tall, about 3" in base diameter
(click HERE to view the base and
its embossing), aqua in color, quite a few bubbles in the glass, has a wide
flared tooled finish, and dates from the 1890s most likely. This bottle
also has several score of vertical 1" (almost) ribs encircling the lower body.
The body label is about 99% intact with multiple colors and some great graphics
- see enlargement of the photo. The neck label is about 90% complete and
says ALWAYS RELIABLE with some fading in places. This bottle was
also acquired to illustrate the food bottles section of the
Historic Bottle Website and like the jars above, came from a large
collection of labeled food bottles. Here is the write-up from that website
which more fully describes this interesting bottle:
Vase, Fluted, or California Olive - These were the names given to several slightly different versions of the same basic style of bottle...by the Illinois Glass Company in their early 20th century catalogs (Illinois Glass Co. 1903, 1911). The name "Vase Olive" is particularly apt as the bottle does resemble a vase. The pictured bottle is body labeled with "Selected Queen Olives, Central Union Ass'n., New Bedford, Mass." with the neck label indicating that their products were "Always Reliable." This bottle/jar was mouth-blown in a cup base mold with no obvious air venting in evidence and a tooled flared finish. This combination of diagnostic characteristics make the bottle difficult to date though a composite of the usual date ranges for these particular features would point towards the 1890s. No information on the producer was located in the bottle literature though the Central Union Association of New Bedford was an early cooperative producer and/or consumer trade union - probably of a utopian slant - formed in 1848 to better market products and/or get better prices on consumer goods for its members (Perlman 1922).
Another perfectly mint food bottle with great labels. $25
PATENT
/ SEPT. 18. 1860 - This quart jar is listed in "The Redbook" as #2295
and is a very nice and unusual mid-19th century canning jar. It is
embossed with PATENT / SEPT.
18, 1860 and is referred to as the "Hemingray jar" as Robert Hemingray -
of Hemingray Brothers & Co. glass manufacturers (Covington, KY.
1862-1882) - was the holder of the patent for this jar mold and part owner
of the company that produced it. The jar is just over 7" tall, a
nice blue aqua glass with some whittle and crudeness, has a ground surface or
rim to the groove ring type finish (click
lip/finish close-up to see
such), smooth base, and dates from the 1860s. The Redbook (#9) notes that
this lip/finish was formed by "...downward pressure on the blowpipe while
(the jar) was still hot from the mold." Although some of the early
groove ring type finishes were formed that way, according to the original patent
description the Hemingray jar groove ring type lip/finish was actually
mechanically formed by the moveable upper portions of this unique patented mold,
not by the glass blower (i.e., "gaffer") pushing down with the blowpipe as
described in the Redbook. Click
R. Hemingray patent #30,063 to view the original 1860 patent.
Condition of this jar is essentially perfectly mint - I can find nothing wrong
with it beside the typical and very tiny grinding roughness to the rim of the
lip (also essentially perfect); no chips, staining, wear, or anything
detrimental. Great jar (ex-Greg Spurgeon item) and about as nice as these
come. This jar was also acquired to illustrate the food bottles section of
the
Historic Bottle Website. $165
SOLD ITEMS
A
TRIO OF SWIRLED PEPPER SAUCES - All three of these beautiful bottles appear
to have been blown in the same mold though they have slightly
different length necks. This is a function of how much glass was used to
produce each bottle and where the blowpipe was severed and the lip (or finish)
tooled.
Colors from left to right: brilliant emerald green, light bluish-green, and
medium blue-green. Bottles are approx. 8" tall, smooth bases with the
embossing S. & P. / PAT. APP. FOR., American ca. 1890's. The S.
& P. stands for Stickney & Poor of Boston, Mass. an important "food"
company of the 19th century. All three bottles are in basically mint
condition with no stains, cracks, chips, or any observable problems. If
these aren't the best looking window bottles you can imagine (for the price) I don't know what
would be. All three for - SOLD!
TRADE
MARK / LIGHTNING Quart Fruit Jar - Another jar popular with jar and
bottle collectors are
the colored Lightning's. This one is a quart size with a color matching lid and
perfect ground lip - click
ground lip & lid for a close-up picture
of the lip and lid. Color is a nice honey amber and the glass
has some "whittling" and a few scattered bubbles. Closure is in good
functioning
condition with a little rust, primarily to the neck band. The base is embossed "PUTNAM /
280". A nice Lightning jar. SOLD!
MASON'S
/ (Maltese cross without lettering) / PATENT / NOV. 30TH / 1858 quart fruit jar
- This is a very nice light to medium orange-amber Mason's jar that is
about 7" (with the cap on) and dates from the 1880s or early 1890s most
likely. The base is embossed with "PAT NOV 26 67 / 434" - click
HERE for a picture of the
base. The jar is essentially mint with a ground finish that has just some
typical grinding related small flaking; click
HERE to see a close-up of
the lip. Nice jar which includes a good condition zinc lid
with a milk glass insert having the Maltese cross and "The Hero Fruit
Jar Company, Phila., PA." embossed inside. SOLD!
LARGE
CATHEDRAL PICKLE - At 11 1/2" tall this is a towering chunk of
great
mid-19th century glass! Smooth square indented base, outwardly rolled lip, aqua in
color, ca. 1865-1875. This ornate pickle is embossed as shown on all four
sides - often these types have the full embossing on just three sides with a much
less ornate label panel on the fourth. The pickle has an overall crude
appearance and waviness to the glass. The condition is near mint with a
little very light inside content haze right in the bottom of the bottle (may
just wash out) and a large bubble inside the neck which has a small portion (1/4" by 1/8") which is open
inside (not outside) the neck. (As usual when describing a bottle,
this sounds worse than it is. This is an ex-Harmer Rooke Auction item from
about 15 years ago. They described it simply as "near mint". Nice example of a big
bottle that everyone should have an example of and which will stay on my
"top shelf" until somebody buys it. SOLD!
ZETRIL
LIME FRUIT SQUASH - This is a very fancy bottle from the Rose's Lime
Juice people. The virtually perfect label states that the product is "Zetril
Lime Fruit Squash, Prepared from the finest West Indian Lime Fruit (Citrus
Limetta) by a special process entirely free of alcohol...L. Rose & Co. LTD, Lime
Fruit Growers, London and at Dominica, B. W. I. (British West Indies).
Click HERE for a close-up
picture of the label. The bottle is heavily embossed around both sides
with limes, vines, and leaves with an intermeshed latticework. Click
HERE for a picture of the back
of the bottle. Glass is greenish aqua in color with a crudely applied
double collar that still has the glass stopper and cork intact, smooth base,
oval in cross section, 9 3/4" tall, English ca. 1900-1910 I would estimate. Condition
of the bottle is mint. Neat decorative bottle. SOLD!
E.
R. DURKEE & CO / NEW YORK - This is embossed on the base of this nice
example of the "Beehive" shaped pepper sauce bottle that was used by that
company for primarily pepper sauce. Bottle is 7" tall, has a true applied
double ring finish or lip, a bluish aqua in color with fairly heavy glass, and
ca. 1880-1890. Condition is near mint with one shallow open bubble on on
rib but no staining, cracks, chips or other issues. Bottle used for and
pictured on the Historic
Bottle Website. SOLD!
GLOBE
Quart Fruit Jar - A beautiful, yellow dominated yellow-amber example of this popular and
beautiful fruit jar with a color matching lid. The base is embossed
"70" and the jar has a complete original wire closure with a
little rusting but is solid. The ground lip is almost
perfect on top with just two typical small, thin, in-making flat grinding flakes off the
lip edge that do not affect the ground finish; click
HERE for a close-up of the
lid and ground finish. This jar has swirly glass that is very yellow in many
places - maybe it could be called yellow with an amber tone.
Condition is shiny and near mint with just a few scratches and some
patchy and extremely faint inside content haze (only seen vaguely in bright light).
This jar was used for and pictured on the
Historic Bottle Website.
(5/07 update: Upon closer inspection, while studying the jar for inclusion on the Historic Bottle Website, I see that there is some "reflection" of light just above the metal band at the base of the support ridge. It is about 3/4" long and is a very fine fracture it appears - something not described to me when I bought the jar but was surely there. Oh, well it is very hard to see and may have been inadvertently missed by the seller...I bought this some years ago off eBay as a mint jar. Given this, the jar has been reduced in price.) SOLD!
HOLLIDAY
DAIRY / PHONE 501 / KLAMATH FALLS, ORE. - This is all embossed inside a
round "slug" plate on the front of this "common sense" style jar. Also
embossed with 1/3 QUART which is a bit unusual size it seems...probably a
cream bottle. Has an "S" in a star on the reverse heel which indicates
manufacture by the Southern Glass Company (Los Angeles, CA.) in the
1920s. Machine-made, about 6.5" tall, colorless glass (clear with a faint
pink tint to my eye) and the usual valve mark on
the base indicating press-and-blow machine production. Condition of the
bottle is essentially flawless...if this isn't as mint as a milk bottle can get
I don't know what is. The only thing I can find is the faintest of rub
marks in a couple places. Holliday Dairy was located a few miles west of
Klamath Falls towards Keno, OR. off what is now Highway 66. Great
example...I'm only getting rid of it because I have another flawless one. SOLD!
Rare
"citron" spice bottle - Here is an oddity in my opinion... an otherwise
commonly shaped spice bottle in a very unusual color. I suppose this could
be called "citron" or more succinctly light to medium yellow green. It is
6.5" in height, has a crudely applied lip, and the distinctive shape of spice
bottles of
the
mid-19th century as shown in the base view to the left. This particular
bottle came from an eastern Nevada mining camp (White Pine Mining District which
included the famous camps of Hamilton & Treasure City) that were flourishing in
the late 1860s to mid-1870s. This bottle was likely made on the West Coast
by the Pacific or San Francisco Glass Works prior to their merging
in 1876. The condition is about mint with one very small (4 mm x 2 mm)
flat flake off one body "rib" edge. Also, the finish of the bottle on the
inside is rough and crude from the blowpipe cracking off process and the
application of finishing glass for the
narrow "bead" type lip. This in-making roughness includes a small,
flat flake that almost certainly occurred during manufacture and not an "issue."
However, that is for potential buyers to determine; here is a
close-up image of the lip rim.
Otherwise the bottle has no cracks, wear, or staining of note. This bottle
was used for and pictured on the
Historic Bottle Website and acquired from the digger of the bottle 20
years ago. A common bottle in a unique color. SOLD!
TRADE
MARK / LIGHTNING - This is a nice light golden amber (a bit lighter even
than the image shows) example of a half-gallon Lightning jar that is also
embossed with PUTNAM / 199 on the base. The lid is of the same nice - and
matching - color and the ground rim is essentially perfect with just a small
amount of the usual tiny grinding flakes - none of any size whatsoever.
Click close-up of the rim
and lid to see such. Condition of the jar is essentially perfect with
a glossy unstained surface appearance (inside and out) and no chips, cracks, or
other damage (one tiny partially open bubble) - same for the matching lid.
The bail has some minimal rust on the band circling the neck with the remainder
being mostly black and glossy. The jar body also has some nice bubbles in
the glass and a light golden color that easily passes light - a beautiful window
bottle/jar. SOLD!
TRADE
MARK / LIGHTNING - Here is a quart companion for the half-gallon example
listed above in a much darker - though pleasant - "tobacco" amber.
The lid is also matching of the same rich color; click
close-up of the rim and lid
to see such. The ground rim is essentially perfect with almost no grinding
induced flaking (one small flake off the outside edge in one place is the only
one of note and has almost no effect on the flat ground surface).
Condition of the jar is essentially mint with one open bubble (1/4" long and
less in width) on the lower front that has little depth; no other chips, cracks, or
staining. The lid is also perfect and has the usual patent dates; the bail
is in good condition too with a bit of rust but a bit of the original black
paint also. The R, A and D letters in TRADE are lightly embossed but
visible; the rest of the embossing is of decent (average) intensity. The
base of this example is embossed with PUTNAM / 326. A nice jar that would
look good sitting in the window next to the half-gallon. SOLD!
Eastman
Brand Pickles - J. P. & D. Plummer, Boston, MASS. - This is a nice label
only (no embossing besides a 742 mold number on the base) wide mouth
pickle bottle that has (obviously) never been buried as it retains it original
labels (body and neck) and original wide cork closure. The bottle is 8.5"
tall, about 3.75" in diameter (click
HERE to view the base and
its embossing), aqua in color with a few bubbles in the glass, has a tooled
banded finish, and dates from around 1895 to 1910 most likely. The body
label is about 100% intact though a few areas are worn - see enlargement of the
photo. The neck label is about 75% intact and notes that the pickle type
was GERKINS - a smaller pickle style. This bottle was purchased to
illustrate the food bottles section of the
Historic Bottle Website, the discussion of which is available at this
link:
http://www.sha.org/bottle/food.htm#Round_food_types Nice perfectly
mint food bottle with a great label. SOLD!
Crown
Brand Queen Olives, S. S. Pierce & Co. Boston - Here is
another nice label only (no embossing on body or base) wide mouth pickle bottle
that has (obviously) never been buried as it retains it original label.
The bottle is almost 8.5" tall, about 4.25" in diameter (click
HERE to view the base and
its embossing), aqua in color, a few bubbles in the glass, has a wide true
applied banded finish, and dates from around 1885 to 1895 most likely. The
body label is about 95%+ intact with multiple colors - see enlargement of the
photo. This bottle was also purchased to illustrate the food bottles
section of the
Historic Bottle Website and like the jar above, came from a large
collection of labeled food bottles. Here is the write-up from that
website:
The moderately wide mouth quart+ bottle/jar pictured...is labeled...as having been used for "Crown Brand Queen Olives" by the S. S. Pierce Co. of Boston, MA. This was a large Boston based food packing company (of which there were many) that was established as a corner grocery store in 1831 and quickly blossomed to "Importers and Grocers" producing and importing scores of products; they were still in business as late as 1980 (Zumwalt 1980). This style was called an "English chow," "English pickle," or "chow chow" by bottle makers though was obviously used for other foods (Illinois Glass Co. 1906; Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Co. 1916).
Another perfectly mint food bottle with a great label. SOLD!
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