Posted by greenbeanman in Kansas on January 23, 2010 at 06:49:44 from (99.151.44.32):
In Reply to: collections posted by Richard from SE AZ on January 22, 2010 at 15:10:19:
I have always been fascinated by glass jars, perhaps from those in the cellar filed with fruits and vegetables courtesy of mom's capable hands.
When my grandmother died in 1969 I was given a few of the older antique jars that she had used decades before. My collection of jars just sort of snowballed from there.
I actively collected 5-10 years ago but stopped when shipping costs got so high and Ebay changes were made and so many reproduction jars started hitting the market.
Expect I have 100-150 different jars, different in brand, size, and color. My furthest came from New Zealand and is an amber color. Cheaper from there even with shipping than I could buy in U.S.
Most valuable one I have comes in at about $60 but paid about $8 for it.
I display and use the jars to store food items in, everything from beans to red hots to mulit-colored dehydrated pepper flakes.
An oddity I picked up along the way is a jar lid straightener. It reworks the old zinc and porcelain lids so that they screw onto jars properly. With the device I can buy a box of bent lids from an antique shop at give away price, straighten them and sell them on an old jar for a tidy profit.
Haines is an ancestral line of mine and I would love to have a Haines jar. Quite rare with some selling in the THOUSANDS of dollars. The one currently on Ebay is at $75. Too rich for my blood.
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