Hi all, and of course Bob Clay I hope.
We picked these up the past few days, looking for the 3-L jars and looking for ones that appealed to us. My wife liked also what Bob likes, the handwritten look to the 3-L ball. I noticed the first one, the small ball MASON, and we went to bobs sight and went looking for some more.
My question is on the bottom of these 1 has an A (smallballmason) , the big one has an H and the plain small ball has none I could find. From bob's sight I can guess the age. I saw in other posts how roman numerals were used and numebrs, but we have letters. odd? probably not. but we are curious.
Also in regards to the zinc lids, whats the best way to "clean" them up? soap and water? at one large antique shop there were easily a hundred or so. funny finding ball jars with atlas lids. (these we had for 3-10 bucks each)
is the plain ball older then the mason ones? did Ball not use the word mason till later?
ok here they are. we buy them for looks and age, not for treasure hunting......yet.
We picked these up the past few days, looking for the 3-L jars and looking for ones that appealed to us. My wife liked also what Bob likes, the handwritten look to the 3-L ball. I noticed the first one, the small ball MASON, and we went to bobs sight and went looking for some more.
My question is on the bottom of these 1 has an A (smallballmason) , the big one has an H and the plain small ball has none I could find. From bob's sight I can guess the age. I saw in other posts how roman numerals were used and numebrs, but we have letters. odd? probably not. but we are curious.
Also in regards to the zinc lids, whats the best way to "clean" them up? soap and water? at one large antique shop there were easily a hundred or so. funny finding ball jars with atlas lids. (these we had for 3-10 bucks each)
is the plain ball older then the mason ones? did Ball not use the word mason till later?
ok here they are. we buy them for looks and age, not for treasure hunting......yet.