While looking for something else, again, I found the "List of Highest valued Ball jars" & this description:
"Ball Mason's N. Patent Nov. 30th 1858 (reverse: Hahne. &. Co. Newark. N.J. (only five or six known jars and that jar has probably the most prolific embossing of any early Ball jar) " From.
Geeze, I can remember when you didn't have a lid, and now you've got a box full. Anyhow, not being a jarhead, I can't quite grasp the whole "N Patent" thing. Do you even still have this jar? Is it an "N Patent?"