Unlined beehive midget Mason lid question?

[coboltmoon]

I just got an unusual Midget lid. The lid is in amazing condition. It has a CFJ logo on top. The lip is wider then a normal lid and it is unlined. The lid fits a Midget jar just great.

Is this the Beehive unlined Midget lid that list for $200 -$400 in red book ten?

 

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Hi- you might try and comtact Tom Caniiff, one of the experts in the world of jars...his e-mail is tomcaniff@aol.com.. let us know what he says..John ...good luck!

 

[jimsears]

This lid with the odd rim was made for a tin can. I have a similar lid that I can screw onto a midget, but the fit isn't great since the threads were spaced slightly closer together on cans than on glass jars.

Lined lids were patented in 1869, and production of unlined lids for glass jars ceased soon thereafter. The Consolidated Fruit Jar Company formed in 1871, and it began using the CFJCo monogram in the late 1870s. Unfortunately, lids with the monogram are too late for the beehive style Mason jars of the 1860s.

Jim