drey perfect mason

Shagnasty · Sep 24, 2006

hi all thought i would through this up dont think its anything good just different i have never seen perfect mason on anything but ball when ya git right down to it i have never seen a drey jar dug it out of the canal a few days ago
any info is good info so let me know
thanks all shagnasty

JGUIS · Sep 24, 2006

Hey Shag, Drey was bought by Ball. I'll have to look at mine to get a date for you, I looked it up, but forget.[&:]

bobclay · Sep 25, 2006

The Drey Perfect Masons were made from the late teens to 1925.

Then in 1925, as GJUIS states, Ball bought out the parent company, Schram, that produced the Drey jars. Ball altered the moulds on some of these after acquisition so that Drey read Ball and continued to make some of these with PERFECT offset to the left of MASON. Usually, you can read the word Drey below the word Ball quite easily on these reworked examples. And almost always you can still see the long tail of the y under the Ball name.

Ball also continued to make the DREY PERFECT MASON jar for a few more years, but they centered the embossing on these. So it is easy to tell if a DREY PERFECT MASON was made by Ball or Drey. If the embossing is offset, it was Drey made. If it is centered it was Ball made, even though it is embossed DREY PERFECT MASON.

Bob Clay

Shagnasty · Sep 28, 2006

hey jguis waz up! not much here done a little digging didnt find much this jar and a sore back[:'(] got to git together and dig again tis the sesaon[

]

bob thanks man! the jar man has spoken[

] didnt think it was anything great but it is cool enough to have earned it a spot on the shelf the history that goes with the glass is the real reason i like this stuff again thanks for the great info

later shagnasty

Wildcat Wrangling Kat · May 29, 2021

Shagnasty said:
hi all thought i would through this up dont think its anything good just different i have never seen perfect mason on anything but ball when ya git right down to it i have never seen a drey jar dug it out of the canal a few days ago
any info is good info so let me know
thanks all shagnasty

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I just sold 1 that has the word drey to ball, rather crudely . Their history is interesting!

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jarsnstuff · Jun 22, 2021

Here are a couple of Ball jars on the reworked Drey molds. Also, a Ball Square Mason reworked from the Drey Square

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