bottleboy311
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Above you will find a listing on ebay for a jar that I feel is incorret represented.
I hate when people get a jar and look it up thinking it is a $200 to $300 jar when it only worth $25 maybe $50 at the most.
First the seller claims this is jar # 1778-9 on page 230 Red Book #9. There is a 1778 w/o the -9 on page 227, however that is a aqua jar with 4 under the arced Mason (not this jar). Second, there is a 1787-9 on page 230, (the seller could have transposed #'s), but again, I do not feel that this is the listed jar either. First of all the jar listed on ebay looks more Apple Green in the pic. Citron, which the lister claims his jar is, and is the color of Jar # 1787-9 in The Red Book, is more yellow or if it does have green in it, it tends to be more on the olive side. Second 1787-9 should have a ground lip. The pic in the ebay listing seems to be a smooth lip, however, I may be wrong cause I can't make it out fully from the pic. But either way ground or smooth lip I don't think this is what the listing seller claims it to be. It is either 1787-4 (w/ smooth lip) or 1787-5 (w/ ground lip). In my opinon, and I am just a jar collector, this jar, in Apple Green, value is 15-35 dollars. He is opening it a $24.99 bid with a reseve, with no bids as of now. If he sold it for $24.99, which he won't because it won't meet his reserve, in my oppinon again he would be getting a good price on this jar. I have emailed him with my feeling about this. Of course when a person gets the idea that they have found something very rare, no amount of logic can convince them they are wrong. What I am afraid of is some unsuspecting new collector buys this jar for a couple hundred dollars thinking he or she is getting a great deal on a Citron colored Jar and not buying an Apple Green Color jar.
Take a look at the listing and see what you think.
Lee
Above you will find a listing on ebay for a jar that I feel is incorret represented.
I hate when people get a jar and look it up thinking it is a $200 to $300 jar when it only worth $25 maybe $50 at the most.
First the seller claims this is jar # 1778-9 on page 230 Red Book #9. There is a 1778 w/o the -9 on page 227, however that is a aqua jar with 4 under the arced Mason (not this jar). Second, there is a 1787-9 on page 230, (the seller could have transposed #'s), but again, I do not feel that this is the listed jar either. First of all the jar listed on ebay looks more Apple Green in the pic. Citron, which the lister claims his jar is, and is the color of Jar # 1787-9 in The Red Book, is more yellow or if it does have green in it, it tends to be more on the olive side. Second 1787-9 should have a ground lip. The pic in the ebay listing seems to be a smooth lip, however, I may be wrong cause I can't make it out fully from the pic. But either way ground or smooth lip I don't think this is what the listing seller claims it to be. It is either 1787-4 (w/ smooth lip) or 1787-5 (w/ ground lip). In my opinon, and I am just a jar collector, this jar, in Apple Green, value is 15-35 dollars. He is opening it a $24.99 bid with a reseve, with no bids as of now. If he sold it for $24.99, which he won't because it won't meet his reserve, in my oppinon again he would be getting a good price on this jar. I have emailed him with my feeling about this. Of course when a person gets the idea that they have found something very rare, no amount of logic can convince them they are wrong. What I am afraid of is some unsuspecting new collector buys this jar for a couple hundred dollars thinking he or she is getting a great deal on a Citron colored Jar and not buying an Apple Green Color jar.
Take a look at the listing and see what you think.
Lee