My parents bought my great grandparent’s house in 1966 and it came grandma’s canning\fruit cellar, complete with “apple juice” (whiskey) from the prohibition era.
Mom moved into dementia care and before the estate sale I raided the canning closet and took everything,including a dozen of these old jars.
There are bubbles in the glass and the jars are old enough to have wavy glass and are discolored. The lids and lid clamps are long gone, but they are still interesting. These jars were apparently produced between 1903 and 1909.
by cedarhat
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Photos of a canning jar so old the glass is wavy and discolored. The jar brand is Kerr, it was patented in 1903 and manufactured in Salt Springs Oklahoma.
i moved into my grandmother’s house and got her jars/my great-grandmother’s jars as well! it’s been neat to use history like that, and my grandmother had mostly kerr too
Love the old jars, I have some of the old blue ones, and I still use them