Unembossed Half Gallon , Ground Top

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I picked up this jar at a garage sale along with a couple of quart ground top Crown jars. One I didn't have for my collection.
This Half gallon ground top jar is definitely a canadian jar but the unusual thing besides no embossing at all on the sides of the jar is the diameter of the threads. It is approximately 1/8" smaller in diameter than the normal canadian ground top jar and it looks like 4 rows of threads. Normally they have 2 or 3 rows.
I have a box full of the old metal jar bands and none of them fit the jar. They are too looose.

It also has a fancy number 2 embossed on the base. Any ideas on what jar it could / should have been. Or is it possibly a prototype jar.
This is the only unembossed half gallon ground top that I remember seeing in my 44 years of digging and collecting old bottles here in Southern Ontario.

Here are pictures.
I appreciate any help

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Here is another picture of the other side of the jar.
It's hard to see in the pictures but there is a great swirling line going all over the sides of the jar all the way around and there are two green globs on the lower right side of the jar on the inside.

 

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Here is a view of the threads.

 

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Here is a picture of the embossed number 2 on the base.

 

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Here is the ground top.

 

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The Franklin, Dexter and Excelsior jars all have a mouth opening that's slightly smaller but deeper than a regular improved style finish. Lids and screw bands for any of those are pretty much scarce as hen's teeth - but it never hurts to keep a lookout. So, if you want a closure on it - what I do is to run a layer or two of duct tape or masking tape around the threads until your screw band screws down on it. Looks reasonable, and you don't have to worry about anyone picking the jar up by the band and the jar falling out from under it. -Tammy