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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 3966397, member: 56"]I think that's the norm around here. Most of the jars I see are Crown from Dominion Glass and they all have that kind of closure. Maybe it's a Canadian thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are 1 quart Crown jars in aqua blue. I like the color though it doesn't show in this photo. They have the same kind of closure. (They're bottles I picked up along the way and I saved to hold a collection of mostly clay marbles that probably date to the first decade of the 1900s and belonged to an uncle as a kid.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]323985[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to have a lot of these jars, but I wasn't doing anything with them, so I took them to work and gave them to a woman who did home canning and I knew liked that kind of jar. Work ended and several years later I ran into the same woman who spoke with sneering contempt of the idiot who gave her a box full of valuable bottles without having a clue as to their worth. And here I thought I was just being nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only other jar I have at the moment is this Doolittle 2 quart, which I think has a closure unique to that company. Not particularly rare I believe, but the only one I've found in these parts.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]323986[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]323987[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]323988[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 3966397, member: 56"]I think that's the norm around here. Most of the jars I see are Crown from Dominion Glass and they all have that kind of closure. Maybe it's a Canadian thing. These are 1 quart Crown jars in aqua blue. I like the color though it doesn't show in this photo. They have the same kind of closure. (They're bottles I picked up along the way and I saved to hold a collection of mostly clay marbles that probably date to the first decade of the 1900s and belonged to an uncle as a kid.) [ATTACH=full]323985[/ATTACH] I used to have a lot of these jars, but I wasn't doing anything with them, so I took them to work and gave them to a woman who did home canning and I knew liked that kind of jar. Work ended and several years later I ran into the same woman who spoke with sneering contempt of the idiot who gave her a box full of valuable bottles without having a clue as to their worth. And here I thought I was just being nice. The only other jar I have at the moment is this Doolittle 2 quart, which I think has a closure unique to that company. Not particularly rare I believe, but the only one I've found in these parts. [ATTACH=full]323986[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]323987[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]323988[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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