🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Bottle / Jar Information

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Good morning and Merry Christmas to all Tnet members!

I'm looking for opinions on this old food jar that I recently acquired online in a lot with 5 other old bottles. Hoping, someone can tell me approximately what year it was made. Is it North American or European in origin and how it was made. The seller told me that he'd found it at a local yard sale here in Ontario. It's 6" tall and 2" wide at the base.

Thanks very much,
Dave

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

First, keep in mind, a lot of experts aren't [experts]. One of the Roadshow experts, with backing by others, told a lady her glass floats couldn't be real, because glass doesn't float.

I hope they called the Navy and warned them about their iron ships and things.

Merely that someone listed a jar as a pickle jar doesn't make it one. First, pickles need to fit inside it, then they have to be able to be removed.

It's been well over fifty-five years since my parents owned an antique-bottle-rock shop, and we spent our summers digging 100 year old homesteads and dumps for bottles. We came across a lot of somewhat similar bottles. Some more ornate than others, but nothing real elaborate in that category. That, if memory serves, included Lee & Perrins bottles.

The coarse exterior of some of the bottles shown suggest whittle marks from molds.

I have a Twinkie mobile (Grumman step van) with about six to ten cases of bottles from our digging days back in the sixties. Guess I should pull them out and go through them. Probably time to fire up the cabinet saw and makes some shadow boxes for a few of them, to make them into fun display bottles.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Dejure, I enjoyed reading about your finds. I'd definitely be having a look through those six to ten cases of bottles from your digging days back in the sixties. You may have a few special ones in there that might be worth something to a collector.

Thanks again for your post,
Dave

 

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Well....after looking at images I didn't see any exactly like yours.....although all are similar to the style of yours. Yours looks older and more primitive than the examples I saw....maybe a search of fruit jars is next ?

Hi Bart, it's been a while my friend, hope you and your family are all doing well.

 

[Dejure]

Thanks for sharing your story with us Dejure, I enjoyed reading about your finds. I'd definitely be having a look through those six to ten cases of bottles from your digging days back in the sixties. You may have a few special ones in there that might be worth something to a collector.

Thanks again for your post,
Dave

Actually, they are there because they are collectables. My parents owned a bottle shop. We high graded our own collection. I did sell some of the winners to a friend who owned a health food store and wanted them for display.
What I consider junk bottles, like the over 100 year old Champaign bottles, are out back of the garage in old milk totes because no one wants bottles that look like they could have been bought, full, off a rack last week.