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weird jars - 6/11/2010 10:41:30 AM    athometoo Posts: 1740 Joined: 9/25/2008 Status: offline picked these up the other day i just got a sample of what was there . dont know alot about them . they  are utility jars? also picked up some weird lids i will post tommorrow . are any of these worth cleaning or should i just recycle them . thanks for any help . in this pic the large green one has a ground lip . is it a vase or pickle? Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: weird jars - 6/11/2010 10:42:36 AM    athometoo Posts: 1740 Joined: 9/25/2008 Status: offline pic of the lip . these were dug in ft worth in the 1970s . Attachment (1) (in reply to athometoo) Post #: 2

RE: weird jars - 6/11/2010 10:43:24 AM    athometoo Posts: 1740 Joined: 9/25/2008 Status: offline second half . are the two on the left pickles? Attachment (1) (in reply to athometoo) Post #: 3

RE: weird jars - 6/11/2010 10:44:52 AM    athometoo Posts: 1740 Joined: 9/25/2008 Status: offline close up of the jar . if it is a pickle they didnt put many in there . thanks again for any help , just trying to sort them out . sam Attachment (1) (in reply to athometoo) Post #: 4

RE: weird jars - 6/11/2010 11:32:00 AM    Wangan   Posts: 1136 Joined: 12/4/2009 From: Northern Maine Status: offline I wouldnt think the ground lip would be a vase,no reason for it.It must have had a lid and ground to make it fit good.I think your other ones might be caper or olive jars,or maybe gherkins? _____________________________ http://youtu.be/e4ujS1er1r0 (in reply to athometoo) Post #: 5

RE: weird jars - 6/11/2010 1:32:05 PM    madman Posts: 10081 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: online hey sam ,what you have there are pickle, caper, food related bottles from the t.o.c.,cept for the brown bottle prob a med, as far as trashing them its yer call...................... _____________________________ always looking for, Toledo Ohio, Knoxville Tn. milks pharms and sodas, (in reply to Wangan) Post #: 6

RE: weird jars - 6/14/2010 11:03:12 PM    surfaceone Posts: 5734 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Hey Sam, I always think of these as Horseradish bottles, because I dug one that was embossed as such 7 or 8 years ago. I think they could have contained a number of different food related items from gherkins to those little pickled ears of corn, but I'm just supposing... (in reply to athometoo) Post #: 7

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