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Harry Pristis

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I need some help identifying and valuing a canning jar that I "rescued" at a flea market yesterday.

The jar is an aqua half-gallon MASON'S / PATENT NOV 30th / 1858 with a monogram which appears to be FJCCo. The base is embossed B274.

The lips on both jars are ground. This half-gallon jar is very crude, having many air bubbles and "straws" in the glass.

This half-gallon is pictured here with a quart jar with similar embossing. This smaller jar is embossed on the base I 103. I've had this quart jar for a long time, but don't know anything about it, either.

Whatever you can tell me about mfr., rarity or value will be appreciated.

----------------Harry Pristis

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The monogram is actually CFJCo. Consolidated Fruit Jar company.
This is jar #1920 in the Red Book of Fruit Jars #9, by Doug Leybourne, Jr.

Mason's CFJCo Patent Nov 30th 1858
Found with slight variations in the CFJCo mongram
Ground lip Mason shoulder seal
Zinc lid, outside: Trademark Boyd's Porcelain Lined
Patd. Mar. 30.58 June 9 63 Mar 30.69
Extd Mar 30. 72 (CFJCo monogram in center)
Zinc Lid inside: Consolidated Fruit Jar company New York
(CFJCo monogram in center) vertical lug
Other lid variations exist
Base: Wide variety of base embossings

Value: HG, QT aqua $3-6
 

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I met John Hathaway at the Keene show one year and showed him a "Crowleytown" mason jar I had dug.
He immediate reaction was; "How much do you want for it?"
A real nice guy and knows his fruit jars.
 

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hello woody, glad to hear you give mr. Hathaway high mark's, i think it's great when forum member's can personaly vouch for some one they met personaly, it give's the forum a much more secure feeling knowing who and what we are dealing with.[:)]
 

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