Ball Mason's 1858 Patent Jar with Moon Star on front of jar

[mkh6911]

I recently came across a Ball Mason's Patent Nov 30th 1858 jar. Ball is on the back of the jar and the rest is on the front of the jar. Above the word Mason's is a Moon and a Star with beams surrounding them. I've never seen anything like this before and thought it was kind of neat. It has the number 140 on the base. Within the past year I have started collecting Ball Jars. I don't have many but I thought this one was kind of neat and a keeper to add to my small little collection. I am in the process of trying to learn as much as I can about these. I'm trying to attach photo's. I hope it works. <Corrupt urls removed>

 

[mkh6911]

Hopefully the photo's show now. I didn't seem to get it to work on my first post.

 

[LC]

Have never seen a Ball jar like that , look forward to seeing it when you post a couple of pics of fit .

 

[MNJars]

That is a REALLY nice example of that jar! Usually the embossing is very weak, but yours seems to pop. Thanks for sharing. It is definitely a keeper for any jar collection and one that doesn't show up all that frequently.

 

[solitarycanary]

That is a nice jar. Where did you find it?

 

[MNJars]

The correct zinc lid for your jar would look something like this[attachment=Christmas Mason Aqua Lid.jpg]It has the same Sun-Moon-Star logo in the center as your jar.

 

[mkh6911]

I got this jar with 11 other Ball Perfect Mason Jars in a lot at an auction. I didn't even notice the markings on this jar when I was bidding on the lot. I was actually just interested in one Perfect Mason to add to the others that I have. When I was going through all of them I noticed this one had the moon and star and had never seen one like this before. I am more excited about this than the original jar I was interested in.

 

[mkh6911]

The lid I have is not original to the jar. I am going to keep my eyes out for a matching lid. I thought I saw a glass lid with the star and moon as well when I was trying to find out info on my jar. I really don't know that much about jars yet. I am excited to learn more.

 

[MNJars]

Stick around here and you'll learn a lot - ask any questions you can think of. This jar is undoubtedly the most valuable of the jars in the lot you described, unless there was a killer colored perfect mason in there.

 

[mkh6911]

The perfect mason jars were all blue. No killer colors unfortunately. I just wanted ones with the same script mine already had. I was happy to come across this one. This is a neat site that I am definitely going to be visiting. Thanks!