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Ball Perfect offset to the right of Mason!!! - 7/25/2010 7:10:21 PM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Ever first I found my first Ball Perfect Mason Jar...which I thought was rare and worth something...... Well I finally came across the true real thing!!! At least I'm pretty darn sure of it.....My boyfriend and I were at the Antique Mall yesterday and I saw a group blue masons and all said perfect mason on them.....this was the only one that was different and I couldn't pass it up...especially when I saw the price!!! pic  # 1....So do I finally have a "Perfect Mason" and how can I find out how old it is? Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) Post #: 1

RE: Ball Perfect offset to the right of Mason!!! - 7/25/2010 7:11:23 PM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Pic 2 Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 2

RE: Ball Perfect offset to the right of Mason!!! - 7/25/2010 7:13:49 PM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Another shot...do I need to get a shot of the bottom as well? Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 3

RE: Ball Perfect offset to the right of Mason!!! - 7/25/2010 7:15:19 PM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline ....any info or help would be very much appreciated!! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 4

RE: Ball Perfect offset to the right of Mason!!! - 7/25/2010 8:08:36 PM    soda bottle   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/27/2010 Status: offline Hello, That appears to be #272-5 in the red book and dates from around 1913-1922. It's only worth a few bucks but it is a neat variety Most of the Perfect Mason's I come across are the ones where Perfect Mason is centered below Ball. By the way your jar is the Beaded neck, dropped A, and smooth lip style. _____________________________ Looking for Delaware bottles. (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 5

RE: Ball Perfect offset to the right of Mason!!! - 7/25/2010 8:23:52 PM    ajohn Posts: 1735 Joined: 8/25/2008 From: The Mountains Status: offline Hello Woods, Your BALL jar is refered to as "BALL(underlined) script ,dropped A offset"Dating between1910-1935 valued at.................$1-$3 bucks.It would be RB#272-5. The cool thing is that you picked out the odd one!Be careful,you might get the jar bug.Anthony-J. _____________________________ I found the Red Road through the valley of the shadow of death....and along the way,found some really cool bottles (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 6

RE: Ball Perfect offset to the right of Mason!!! - 7/27/2010 10:02:07 AM    jarsnstuff   Posts: 397 Joined: 8/28/2004 From: California Status: offline The offset Perfect is thought to be the earliest of the Ball Perfect Mason jars, according to the Standard Reference, dating to 1913-1914.  Since Ball was frugal if nothing else, the offsets were made by simply adding "perfect" to the Ball Mason molds wherever the word would fit.  That seems to be why some are much more distinctively offset than others & Redbook lists so many variations of where "Perfect" is in relation to "Mason".  Even though Redbook prices these pretty much the same as a "regular" BPM, I think they should be valued at maybe a buck more - just because they are the oldest AND most of us would have picked the very same one out of a bunch of BPMs.  -Tammy _____________________________ http://fruitjarrings.multiply.com/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/fruitjarrings/ (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 7

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