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[RED Matthews]

Well this is confusing. They didn't and couldn't whittle in an iron mold. Early iron molds that had mold iron castings of plain cast iron, took heat out of the glass to fast and caused what should be called cold mold ripple. When they started chilling the cavity of mold castings, by pouring the molten metal against a cold iron cavity formed iron piece, it created dendritic carbon in the mold iron cavity wall, for the depth of about a half inch. This type of iron has a reduced heat extraction rate and did not cool the glass to irregular thickness. That chill had to be knocked out of the new casting immediately when the pouring is done.This glass condition could not be correctec in the bottom part of the three mold - dip mold base, so those bottles had to have the cold mold glass in the lower part of them. I covered this subject in an earlier home page wright=up.that was done before I found this marking in the three mold bottles I obtained. RED M

 

[cowseatmaize]

I figure it's from the early machines and some or most of the wave is actually just the difference of the thickness in the glass and how it appears in the light. I've seen quite a few where the outside is quite smooth but the waves can be felt on the inside surface,

 

[deenodean]

It says Putnam 375 on the bottom it want let me upload pic

If you email me a picture I will resize and post it ... Email to = deenodean@hotmail.com

 

[scottr]

I think I sent it

 

[scottr]

It looks like this one.pic with hand is mine

 

[scottr]

I do have lid

 

[cowseatmaize]

OK, now it's getting confusing. The jar in the picture looks like #1489. The two in the book are close except a lot of the 227's are thought to be repro but I think it was an actual mold number also. Yours is 375 without the HWP anyway so no matter.

 

[ajohn]

Good color. a little lighter would make this jar a nice prize. Glass character is good also. A couple of people bidding on this would take it to $80- $90 mark. Also looks pro cleaned to me. Just my opinion. Thanks for posting, got my jar juices going again!!!

 

[cowseatmaize]

Now I have a question. Were the lids pressed with the same gather to be the same color?