Beech Nut bacon jar

[cyberdigger]

I haven't seen a post about this one here, so let me do the honors... apparently, before chewing gum and baby food, these guys got their company off the ground with bacon in a jar in the 1890's.. the competition of the time thought it unwise to let the customers see the bacon in the container... the customers thought otherwise, it was a great success.. by 1905 they were grossing a million bucks a year with this product!

 

[glass man]

CHARLIE DOES IT SAY BACON GREASE ON IT? I DON'T SEE IT. BEECH NUT ARE ALSO KNOWN FOR THEIR CHEWING TOBBACO. SEEING THE EMBOSSED LEAVES MAKES ME THINK OF TOBBACO. LORILLARD INTRODUCED BEECHNUT CHEWING TOBBACO IN THE 1890S. COUSRE THERE WAS BEECHNUT HAM AND BACON. BUT JUST SEEING THE LEAVES SEEMS MORE LIKE IT WOULD HAVE TOBACCO IN IT INSTEAD OF HAM OR BACON. JUST MY 18/12 CENTS WORTH. JAMIE

 

[cyberdigger]

...maybe.... I enjoy a BLT every now and then... bacon and leaf tobacco sandwiches keep a guy "going"[]

 

[glass man]

WOULD KEEP ME GOING...TO THE BATH ROOM![] I ADDED A LITTLE MO INFO BOUT IT ABOVE.

 

[madman]

yo cyb i believe it was a tobacco jar and or bacon, very nice how much!

 

[cyberdigger]

...dudes.. the one time I decide to make an outright informative contribution to this forum, and two of my best buddies here are doubting my word!!! It's a bacon jar... [>:][X(][8|][:-]

 

[cyberdigger]

..........isn't it??

 

[cyberdigger]

http://www.goantiques.com/scripts/images,id,1631606.html

 

[appliedlips]

I'll agree with you Charlie, I researched one I found a while back and it definitely held a food product and not tobacco or baby mush. I am not sure about these jar only holding bacon but your on the right track.

 

[madman]

doubt no never! not you, u want to sell it??? mike