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2986. BROWN & WORCESTERS Stopper Jar Quart EXTREMELY RARE

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: dingram
Price: $1,551.00

Size: QUART

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: tooled ring collar mouth made for a stopper closure

Appearance: shiny condition, the jar has been dug and professionally cleaned to restore luster

Condition: the mouth has a thumbnail sized repair that is essentially invisible to the eye

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: unmarked

Age: c1870

Availability: extremely rare, only two examples are known, both dug from the same hole

2987. FLACCUS BROS STEERS HEAD Pint DEEP AMBER

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: tompowers
Price: $928.00

Size: PINT

Color: DEEP AMBER

Closure: correct original glass screw cap in unusually good shape with only minimal nicking to the threads

Appearance: shiny

Condition: jar is in fine shape including a good ground mouth with very little nicking

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: unmarked

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce, and rather unusual for this series in amber, that the lid is an exact color match to the jar

2988. SUN - MOON - STAR Logo MASONS 1858 Rev: BALL HG

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: ARROWHEAD
Price: $118.99

Size: HALF GALLON

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: fine Sun-Moon-Star zinc cap

Appearance: shiny glass

Condition: flaking of the ground mouth

Strength of embossing: medium

Base: "140"

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce

2989. TOWLE MAPLE SYRUP PRODUCTS Ball Sure Seal ST JOHNSBURY

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: Fruit_Jar
Price: $90.00

Size: approximately 22 oz

Color: BALL BLUE

Closure: scarce original correct Ball Blue glass lid and original wire bail

Appearance: shiny

Condition: minor nicking of the smooth mouth

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: "PATd JULY 14 08"

Age: early 1900's

Availability: scarce, and especially with the correct lid

2990. PATENT JUNE 27 1865 Quart - HEMINGRAY

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: earlyjars
Price: $335.00

Size: QUART

Color: DEEP AQUA

Closure: modern closure

Appearance: sparkling, seedy and whittled glass

Condition: small chip at the end of the neck ramp, flaking of the ground mouth

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: unmarked

Age: c1870

Availability: scarce early Hemingray patent-closure jar

2991. DICTATOR Aqua Half Gallon DI HOLCOMB

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: crockman
Price: $80.00

Size: HALF GALLON

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: absent

Appearance: sparkling glass

Condition: 2 small chips on the outer rim

Strength of embossing: strong and crisp

Base: "Wm McCULLY & Co PITTS"

Age: c1870

Availability: scarce and a beautiful example

2992. IRON PONTIL Stopper Jar COBALT BLUE 1850's

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: ronash
Price: $1,652.00

Size: QUART

Color: MEDIUM COBALT BLUE

Closure: heavy applied ring collar mouth for a stopper closure, measures about 2-5/8 inches inside diameter

Appearance: sparkling and whittled glass

Condition: one thin prying chip on the outer surface of the applied mouth as shown

Base: reddish iron pontil scar

Age: 1850's

Availability: rare in this gorgeous color, probably blown in the Pittsburgh Glass manufacturing district

2993. GLOBE SWIRLY Quart YELLOW AMBER

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: bluebell4433
Price: $325.00

Size: QUART

Color: YELLOW AMBER

Closure: original

Appearance: beautifully crude with distinctive heavy swirling features, which spiral around the jar from top to bottom

Condition: flaking of the ground mouth

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: "43"

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce and highly appealing with the crude glass character

2994. ARS in Script Aqua QUART

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: mike davis
Price: $65.00

Size: QUART

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: applied ring collar mouth for a Kline glass stopper (not included, but they're extremely common)

Appearance: shiny

Condition: tiny nick on the mouth

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: unmarked

Age: c1870

Availability: uncommon

2995. BEAVER Aqua MIDGET PINT

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: stansl00
Price: $225.99

Size: MIDGET PINT

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: correct unmarked aqua glass insert and a zinc screw band

Appearance: sparkling glass

Condition: normal flaking of the ground mouth

Strength of embossing: medium to strong

Base: "2"

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce and highly-appealing in midget size

2996. OLIVE YELLOW Trade Mark LIGHTNING Quart

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: rnb3
Price: $325.00

Size: QUART

Color: OLIVE YELLOW

Closure: original and the lid is the correct matching color

Appearance: sparkling and whittled glass

Condition: no damage including a nice ground mouth with very little flaking

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: "PUTNAM 43"

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce in this gorgeous color

2997. HEMINGRAY Patent 1860 Style Quart TEAL BLUE

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: hemingray-czar
Price: $400.00

Size: QUART

Color: TEAL

Closure: push-down-style groove ring wax sealer mouth finish, and comes with an early unmarked tin cap

Appearance: shiny

Condition: flaking of the ground mouth, has a tiny manufacturer's pot stone bruise as shown

Base: unmarked

Age: 1860-1870

Availability: rare in this beautiful color varation

2998. JOEL HAINES West MIDDLEBURG Ohio QUART

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: earlyjars
Price: $575.00

Size: QUART

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: modern

Appearance: shiny

Condition: has a small reflective ding embedded in the glass in back as shown

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: unmarked

Age: late 1800's

Availability: rare

2999. ROYAL of 1876 Quart ALL ORIGINAL

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: WHR anise
Price: $375.00

Size: QUART

Color: DEEP AQUA

Closure: correct original tin band with soldered-on wrench lugs and correct original aqua glass insert with embossed berries, note that the band spins and will not tighten fully

Appearance: sparkling glass with a trace of inside deposit

Condition: normal flaking of the ground mouth

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: "7"

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce

3000. BALL SURE SEAL Half Pint AMETHYST

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: stansl00
Price: $110.00

Size: HALF PINT

Color: AMETHYST

Closure: original

Appearance: shiny glass, has a small molding cavity on the neck bead as shown (not a chip)

Condition: bruise running along the smooth mouth

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: unmarked

Age: early 1900's

Availability: scarce in this color

3001. EAGLE Half Gallon FANTASY CLOSURE

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: GPGlass
Price: $384.00

Size: HALF GALLON

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: Correct glass lid and an old fantasy metal closure made of cast brass, brass wire, and sheet iron. The brass has an old dark patina.

Appearance: shiny glass

Condition: minor nicking on the mouth

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: unmarked

Age: jar made in the late 1800's

Availability: scarce

3002. BEAVER Half Gallon LIGHT BLUE

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: Jubel52
Price: $120.00

Size: HALF GALLON

Color: BLUE-ISH AQUA

Closure: correct button insert is light aqua tinted

Appearance: shiny glass

Condition: flaking of the ground mouth

Strength of embossing: pictorial is strong, lettering is medium

Base: "1"

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce

3003. POTTER & BODINES AIRTIGHT Figural Barrel PONTIL Quart

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: dingram
Price: $910.00

Size: QUART

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: grooved ring wax sealer mouth finish

Appearance: shiny

Condition: tiny nick on one of the embossed "bands"

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: pontil scar

Age: c1860

Availability: scarce and a great-looking example

3004. LIME GREEN Wax Sealer CRUDE QUART Base: 5 Dots

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: HMPF
Price: $335.00

Size: QUART

Color: STRONG LIME GREEN

Closure: grooved ring wax sealer mouth finish and comes with an early unmarked tin cap

Appearance: sparkling with a hammered whittle effect and seedy glass character

Condition: no damage including a rare perfect mouth

Base: 5 raised dots

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce and a great-looking colored jar

3005. BLOESER JAR Aqua QUART Complete

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: bearcat2
Price: $220.00

Size: QUART

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: all original

Appearance: shiny

Condition: roughness and flaking of the ground mouth

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: 5 raised dots

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce

3006. PINT Hemingray PUSH-DOWN WAX SEALER w/ ORIGINAL CAP

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: smacduck
Price: $660.00

Size: PINT

Color: DEEP AQUA

Closure: puch-down style grooved ring wax sealer mouth finish, and comes with the rare original tin cap (has oxidation but solid with no holes)

Appearance: shiny glass

Condition: the sheared and not-ground mouth has roughness and flaking all around

Base: unmarked

Age: 1860's

Availability: rare

3007. THE VAN VLIET JAR of 1881 SIDE WIRE Quart

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: crockman
Price: $825.00

Size: QUART

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: original glass lid and original cast iron yoke clamp and original thumbscrew and original wire clamp that wraps entirely around the body of the jar, note that the glass lid has chipping on the sides

Appearance: shiny

Condition: flaking of the ground mouth

Strength of embossing: medium to strong

Base: "5"

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce and a fine all-original example

3008. BALL SPECIAL Disconnected Underscore SHOULDER SEAL

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: Jar-man 35
Price: $60.00

Size: QUART

Color: BALL BLUE

Closure: zinc cap

Appearance: sparkling

Condition: no damage

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: "2"

Age: early 1900's

Availability: scarce version

3009. HEAVILY WHITTLED Quart LIGHTNING Honey Amber

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: burtonboy422
Price: $157.00

Size: QUART

Color: DEEP HONEY AMBER

Closure: original

Appearance: hammered whittle effect all over, with seedy & sparkling glass

Condition: flaking of the ground mouth

Strength of embossing: strong

Base: "PUTNAM 112"

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce with this degree of glass character

3010. GILBERDS (Star) IMPROVED JAR Aqua QUART

Start Date: 08/29/2011
End Date: 09/08/2011
Buyer: olddutch
Price: $187.00

Size: QUART

Color: AQUAMARINE

Closure: original glass lid and original heavy iron wire full wrap-around clamp

Appearance: shiny with a few usage scuffs

Condition: flaking of the ground mouth, flat chip on the heel as shown

Strength of embossing: medium to strong

Base: "1"

Age: late 1800's

Availability: scarce