Help Valuing a Few Vintage Fruit Jars (Root, CFJ, Ball)

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Hello! I recently was given a large collection of vintage jars and bottles from my father-in-law and am looking for assistance on valuing a few of the odder ones. I've gotten my hands on The Red Book of Fruit Jars, which has been quite helpful with most. I'll reply to my own thread with the different jars I have questions about.

The first one I have a question on is this "Mason's Patent Nov 30th 1858" jar with the CFJ logo, it is a cornflower blue. "F51" is written on the bottom. I briefly listed it on eBay for auction and it attracted quite a bit of attention, including people saying they'll "pay whatever I would like" for it. Thoughts? The cornflower blue variant isn't listed in the Red Book.

 

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Next jar in question is this 1/2 gallon Root Mason. It may be potentially not worth much, but it has a period after the word "Mason." I've been unable to find another example of this, nor is it in the Red Book. Is this an error?

 

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Next fruit jar in question is this 1/2 gallon Ball Mason jar. The logo is both smaller than other Ball Mason 1/2 gallons I have, and the word "Mason" is differently placed than I've seen before. Again, there isn't a shown example in the Red Book. Thanks for your help!

 

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Last jar (for now) is this olive green Genuine Mason. I have it listed on eBay right now for $40 and it has quite a few watchers but no bids. Just curious if I've listed it an a roughly appropriate amount. My Red Book from the 70s says $15-20.

 

[yacorie]

That blue jar is a killer. I’d get off eBay and sign up on Facebook to the jar pages. The big collectors are there and you can have discussion- get opinions from people in the market ans sel with no fees to known people

 

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That blue jar is a killer. I’d get off eBay and sign up on Facebook to the jar pages. The big collectors are there and you can have discussion- get opinions from people in the market ans sel with no fees to known people

Thanks for the suggestion! I found the antique jar group on Facebook and am pending approval for joining. That makes a lot of sense to me, it's a small community and eBay can be questionable.

 

[yacorie]

Join Fruit jar collectors

there is a ball jar page too but my experience is the MP collectors are more on the fruit jar collectors page

 

[brent little]

Looks to be pretty common in general.

 

[coreya]

the blue one is a #1920 in the red book and a great jar, the second could be a #2510-1 listed at 25-35 in the book. The third if its a pint looks like a # 1103 but hard to tell the color from the pics anywhere from 15-60 depending