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Patent date May 8 1883. Jones MFG Co. Boston MA. Glass is miraculously intact. It was in hard packed, sandy, very rocky soil that is currently a trail and likely used to be a road. Can’t believe it survived that location or my shovel that was acting forcefully and indiscriminately trying to get at it though all that hard packed rock. Was thinking lantern related but why the threads on both sides then? Fuel related? I’m sure someone here know.

 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-jones-mfg-co-boston-mass-1982379555
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/circa-1888-antique-gem-water-filter-1938147331

 

Ah thanks! Now I wonder why those results didn’t come up for me. I thought all of the contents looked different than the sand I found it in!!! I was hoping something “cooler” but this will do.

 

It is similar! You found it detecting or just treasure hunting? I don’t even know what a Crystal wireless set it to be honest?

 

Ah gotcha. It is oddly similar!

 

I hate to “use up” a worthpoint request on this but now I’m super curious as to what these went for. If anyone sees this and happens to have a minute... I try not to ask unless it’s really helpful to the bottom line but curiosity is killing the cat on this one.

 

Do you recall exactly what you searched? I used the company name, year, and “water filter” and I still didn’t see these results in the first handful of pages.

 

Just Jones MFG showed me the Gem example on the first page of worthpoint. From there it was easy to find others. Here's one showing how it could be used:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-faucet-attached-filter-jones-459609898 ($44.50)

The other two sold for $26 & $99.

 

ohhhh. So you searched on worthpoint itself rather than on Google? Wow. I can’t believe one sold for $100. That’s wild. I don’t sell my finds but this one I may. I found a piece of a bicycle carbide lantern in good shape I may sell too.

 

JMHO.
many old water filters were asbestos, so better take care and take apart only when you see that it's still in one piece.

 

Oh yikes!!!! That’s scary. I know next to nothing about asbestos. I hope maybe 5-10 mins of touching this and cleaning it out won’t do too much damage? I believe it’s long term exposure that’s really bad? Thanks for the heads up!!!

 

it's rather the fibres and dust when it gets broken. as long as it's in one firm filter element it's mostly harmless.

 

I assume the sandy/rocky material within could be the asbestos part? It was filled with a granular material that I emptied out into my kitchen trash bin. Other than that I’m not sure what could have contained asbestos? It’s just metal and glass.