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8467. COBALT BLUE Quart THE CANTON DOMESTIC FRUIT JAR

Details
Item #
8467
Price
$12000
Start Date
10/6/2014 6:00:00 PM
End Date
10/16/2014 9:27:54 PM
Buyer
jbarrow
Seller
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Description

Size:  QUART

Color:  DEEP COBALT BLUE

Closure:  original matching Cobalt Blue glass lid (one bottom edge flake on lid) and original shaped iron wire clamp

Appearance: sparkling glass with fine surface swirling all over

Condition:  normal nicking of the ground mouth

Embossing:  strong

Base: unmarked

Age:  late 1800's

Availability: Extremely rare in this stunning color.....a beautiful jar. Only about a dozen examples are known. The patentee for this jar was David Barker of Canton, Ohio. The various Canton jars were made in the 1890's by the Canton Glass Co of Marion, Indiana and Canton, Ohio and by the Cambridge Glass Co of Cambridge, Ohio.