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« on: June 01, 2009, 04:01:31 pm »
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me and my friend and his girl friend and her friend was walking back to this old house to spend the night and on the way back we passed over a creek and i saw some glass and picked itr up stuck it on my pocket and latter found out it it said patiend in 1858 it was a old mason jar thats what i was told and i was wondering if it meant there was an old house near by( the house we was walking to was pretty far away. and wroung time period.) and this is no cliff garbage dump i found it at it was in a little creek in a flat field  There was a couple of other diffrent kinds of glass there. also.one more question.  about what time was these mason jars no longer being made or used? 

in the pic there is a sliver of the 8 in 1800s
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« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2009, 12:05:37 pm »
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Hm, that piece of Mason jar was manufactured as late as 1920.  Crowleytown?s Atlantic Glass Works, Crowleytown, New Jersey were believed to have started this long series of glass jars.  Here are some ways to tell exactly how to date glass jars approximately.

There are several ways to date an antique jar or bottle. Probably the most important is the presence or absence of a pontil scar. The pontil scar - a ring of glass or a black and red iron-like indention on the base of a bottle or jar - indicates that a glassblower held the item on a pontil rod (when the glass was hot) while the neck and/or lip was shaped and finished by hand. Typically, American pontil scarred bottles predate 1855 or so.

Another age determiner is the presence of mold seams. Many of the earliest bottles or jars were freeblown (that is, blown without the aid of a mold) therefore have no mold seam. Seams which stop short of the lip indicate that the bottle was blown into a mold then finished by hand by adding a top or tooling the lip into shape. Machine-made jars (dating after about 1915) have mold seams extending from the bottom up to and across the top of the jar.

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« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2009, 01:39:37 pm »
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was there any certain years they were popular or widly used.

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« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2009, 04:43:28 pm »
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Hm, possibly from the 1860s to the late 1920s.  Actually, they still make these jars or replicas as you can call it.  The remakes are priced in between $40-$100.  They were very popular in the past and they still are in certain conditions.

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« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2009, 01:19:45 pm »
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well my mammaw has one and it is a light blue weird shaped and says the whole 1858 thing and has seams and the old metal lid with the white glass thing under it how old do you think this is

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Is it possible that you can get a decent picture of it?

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