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Since 1972

Club Officers

Richard Cole, President 2904 W. Moore Rd. Muncie, IN 47304 765-288-8717

Dave Rittenhouse, Vice Pres. 1008 S. 900 W. Farmland, IN 47340 765-468-8091

Jim Durr, Treasurer 500 W. Ohio St. Fortville, IN 46040 317-485-5854

Joe Coulson, Secretary/Editor 412 W. Smith Valley Rd. Greenwood, IN 46142 317-476-6409

Membership

The Midwest Glass Chatter is a monthly publi-cation and is a forum through which collectors can share information.

Membership cost is $15.00 per year, per family, due each January 31. All jar/bottle related collectors are welcome. Send to MAFJBC, Attn: James Durr, 500 W. Ohio St., Fortville, IN 46040

Meeting Minutes, September 13th, 2015 The September club

meeting was held in the Canti-na at Minnetrista in Muncie, Indiana. Club President Dick Cole opened the meeting and welcomed 8 members.

We have a couple of cor-rections to report for the Au-gust Glass Chatter. The French Lick Springs paper-weight was displayed by Jerry Dixon rather than Lou Ebert. Also, the Ball ® Mason special run Asheville, North Carolina fruit jar discussed by Mark Hoyt was a Quart rather than a Pint. The jar is only known in Quart size.

Jim Durr gave the Treas-urer’s report for September. There were expenses for the club newsletter. There was no income reported for the month. The club continues to maintain a positive bank bal-ance.

Dave Rittenhouse men-tioned that the club will have an advertisement for the Janu-ary 2016 Muncie Jar Show in the October issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector and the November/December issue of Bottles & Extras. Contact Dave if you need Show Flyers to distribute at antique malls, flea markets and other places.

Dick told everyone to check out the article by Tom

Caniff on “The Lost Penley Jars” in the September issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Col-lector. It is an interesting story about a modern line of fruit jars that never made it to market, but a few examples did escape destruction.

Dick Cole mentioned these upcoming regional shows: October 10th 2015 (Saturday) Memphis, Tennes-see – 30th Annual Mid-South Antique Bottle, Advertising & Collectibles Show at the Agri-center International, 7777 Walnut Grove Road, Mem-phis, Tennessee, 9:00am to 4:00pm; October 18th 2015 (Sunday) Findlay, Ohio – Findlay Antique Bottle Show NEW LOCATION The Ster-ling Center, 4570 Fostoria Avenue, Findlay, Ohio 45840 (behind Humane Society).

Midwest Glass Chatter September 2015

An Index to the Club Library is available online. Please contact Dick Cole about items which you would like to check out.

From I-75, take exit #157, follow signs for Rt. 12, ap-prox. 5 miles. Show hours 9:00 am – 2:00 pm.

The next club meeting will be held October 4th at 1:30pm at Minnetrista in Muncie, Indiana. The theme for Show and Tell will be “Go-Withs” (items that go along with collecting fruit jars and bottles).

Respectfully submitted,

Joe Coulson

Dick Cole first showed examples of the Penley jars at the January 2012 Muncie Fruit Jar Show. Here is a photo of his display.

Show and Tell The theme for the Sep-

tember club meeting was “Jars Made in Indiana.”

Joe Coulson shared a Ball blue QT Ball Standard which he had purchased a yard sale earlier in the year for $1.

Joe also shared an aqua HG Mason (shepherd crook) (made by the Greenfield Fruit Jar & Bottle Co.); and an aqua HG Mason’s Patent Nov. 30TH 1858. (note the period after 1858) (reverse heel: U.G.Co.). Thought to have been made at the Upland Glass Co. in Up-land, Indiana.

Lou Ebert displayed a clear 12 1/5 oz. (RB #550) Calcutt’s Patent Apr.11 Nov.7, 1893 (on glass lid and base) (made by the Canton Glass Co., Marion, Indiana 1893—1899 and made by National Glass Co., Factory No. 2, Can-ton Glass Works, Marion, Indiana 1899–1902); a clear 22 oz. (RB #565) The Canton Domestic Fruit Jar PatD Dec. 31 1889 (on glass lid) (made by the Canton Glass Co., Marion, Indiana 1893—1899 and made by National Glass Co., Factory No. 2, Canton Glass Works, Marion, Indiana 1899–1902); an aqua 58 oz. (RB #1920) Mason’s CFJCo (monogram) Patent Nov. 30TH 1858 (base: F 191) (made by Thompsons’ Glass Co., Gas City 1892—?); a green QT (RB #730) Dillon G. Co. Fairmount, Ind. (on base) (made by Dillon Glass Co., Fairmount, Indiana 1891—1894); a clear HG (RB #878) Easy Trade VJC Co (monogram) Mark Vacuum Jar (base: Pat. July 11, 1893 VJC Co monogram) (made by Safe Glass Co., Upland, Indiana 1898—1902); a clear QT (RB

#2579) Sealfast (base: un-marked) (ground lip, old style Lightning seal) (probably made by Upland Flint Bottle Co., Upland, Indiana for A.M. Foster & Co., glass jobber of Chicago, who owned Upland Flint Bottle Co. 1911—?); a clear QT (RB #2578) Sealfast (base: Foster 401) (smooth lip, old style Lightning seal) (made for A.M. Foster & Co., glass jobber of Chicago, by Upland Flint Bottle Co., which became Foster Forbes Glass Co. in 1929); a clear HP (RB #2581) Foster Sealfast (smooth lip, Lightning beaded neck seal) (made for A.M. Foster & Co., glass jobber of Chicago by The Marion Flint Glass Co., Mari-on 1914—?); a clear QT (RB #2591) Sealfast Sold By C.B. Hobbs Grocer Phone 581 Tipton, Ind. (base: unmarked) (smooth lip, old style Light-ning seal) (made for A.M. Fos-ter & Co., glass jobber of Chi-cago, manufacturer and date undetermined); a very light aqua PT (RB #1605) Made By The Meyer Fruit Jar Co. De-troit, Mich. (base: unmarked) (ground lip, glass lid and buck-le clamp ring missing) (made by The Meyer Fruit Jar Co. in the Ft. Wayne Glass Co. plant in Upland, Indiana; Ft. Wayne Glass Co. was in receivership and Meyer rented the factory from the receiver in 1897); an aqua PT (RB #1624) The Mari-on Jar Mason’s Patent Nov. 30TH 1858 (ground lip, Mason shoulder seal, original zinc cap) (made by Marion Fruit Jar & Bottle Co. in their factories in Marion, Fairmount [two] and Converse, Indiana 1890s—1904); a clear QT (RB #1639) Mason (in script, underlined with narrow banner) (smooth

lip, Mason shoulder seal) (these jars are attributed to Safe Glass Co., Upland, Indi-ana circa early 1900s); a light aqua QT (RB #1938) HFJCo cross above Mason’s Patent Nov. 30TH 1858 (base: Pat. Nov. 26 67 mould number 299) (original lid, inside: The Hero Glass Works, Philadel-phia PA.—no Hero cross) (made for Hero Fruit Jar Co. by Marion Fruit Jar & Bottle Co. circa 1890s) (note: the mould number 299 matches one of eight jar bottom shards found at the Marion Fruit Jar & Bottle Co. site in Marion, Indiana); an amber QT (RB #2168) M.F.J.Co. (on base) (groove ring wax sealer, pressed laid-on ring) (made by Marion Fruit Jar & Bottle Co. in Marion and possibly their factories in Fairmount and Converse) (when Marion Fruit Jar & Bottle Co. started in 1888 their first products were wax sealers); and finally a Can-ton Glass Co.’s Pattern 130 “Multiple Scroll” clear jar (wide mouth, hand blown in a mould with base and three body side parts) (top seal, straddle glass lid and metal screw band) (lid: embossed with screaming eagle with globe, shield, arrows and foli-age) (there is a band at the shoulder and heel of this jar) ( this pattern was used on sever-al Canton products) (these jars were probably packer jars for fancy fruits and could be used for home canning) (made by Canton Glass Co., Marion, Indiana circa 1890—1899 and National Glass Co., Factory no. 2, Canton Glass Works, Marion 1899—1902).

Dave Rittenhouse shared a beautiful yellow QT The


Leader. He recently acquired a matching color lid on eBay.

Jean Harbron brought an amber QT (RB #340) BBGMCo reproduction; an SCA QT unembossed octagon neck jar (made by Pennsylva-nia Glass Co. of Anderson, Indiana); and a clear Crisco product jar with original label (base embossed with Ball logo).

Mike James shared sever-al newspaper articles on Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana. Mike also shared an original letterhead from Root Glass Co. Root Glass in Terre Haute was simi-lar to Ball Brothers in Muncie. There were several businesses in Terre Haute that had the Root name, such as the Root Department Store and Chap-man Root Racing.

Mike also displayed sever-al bottles and jars made at the Root plants to show the simi-lar and unmistakable green color. Some people call it “Coke bottle green”, and oth-ers call it “Root green”.

Colleen Dixon brought an aqua PT The Leader; a green QT Swayzee’s Improved Mason; a green QT Ball (dropped ‘a’) Perfect Mason; an aqua QT Mason’s Patent Nov. 30TH 1858 (base: Hem-ingray 3); a clear QT Globe; a light green HG Globe; a light green HG unembossed (base: Hemgray 2) (metal cap: Patent June 2, 1860 Cin. O.); and a Ball Blue HG Ball Ideal Pat’d July 14, 1908.

Dick Cole shared a clear small Ball Refrigerator and Freezer Jar. This is a scarce size that is not seen often.


Show and Tell Pictures

Ball Blue QT Ball Standard Machine-made

Clear 12 1/5 oz. Calcutt’s Patent Apr.11 Nov.7, 1893 (around side of glass lid and again on the base)

The Canton Domestic Fruit Jar PatD Dec. 31 1889 (on glass lid)

Aqua HG Mason (shepherd crook)

Aqua HG Mason’s Patent Nov. 30TH 1858 (reverse heel: U.G.Co.)

Amber QT M.F.J.Co. (on base) (groove ring wax sealer, pressed laid-on ring)

Made by Marion Fruit Jar & Bottle Co.

Aqua 58 oz. Mason’s CFJCo Patent Nov. 30TH 1858 (base: F 191)

Made by Thompsons’ Glass Co., Gas City 1892—?


Show and Tell Pictures, cont’d

Clear HG Easy Trade VJC Co (monogram) Mark Vacuum Jar (base: Pat. July 11, 1893 VJC Co monogram)

Made by Safe Glass Co., Upland, Indiana 1898—1902

Yellow amber QT The Leader

(with matching lid)

An unusual size of the Ball Refrigerator and

Freezer Jar

Mike James discusses the consistent green color of glass of items made by the Root Glass Co.

Light aqua PT The Meyer Fruit Jar Co. Detroit, Mich.

Aqua QT Mason’s Patent Nov. 30TH 1858 (base: Hemingray 3)

Green QT Ball (dropped ‘a’)

Perfect Mason


Circle City Antique Bottle Show, Sept. 19th, Pictures

Display of Coca-Cola bottles from all 50 states plus the District of Columbia

Display of Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry Display of rare Indiana bottles including a set from Indianapolis Glass Works

Nicely done Display award plaques American Glass Gallery had a sales table Dave Rittenhouse at his sales table

Jerry and Colleen Dixon at their sales table Joe Coulson at his sales table A general view of the sales floor; Pete Peter-son, and Joe & Tina Merkel had sales tables


Mike James shared this Root Glass Company letterhead soliciting business from all of the Coca-Cola bottlers in the United States. Note the Root Mason jar depicted in the upper right corner of the page: “Machine-Made Jar Plant / 17TH Street & Maple Avenue”.

Upcoming club meetings: Sunday, October 4th, 1:30pm meet at Minnetrista, theme is “Go-Withs” Sunday, November 1st, 1:30pm meet at Minnetrista, theme is “Mason’s Patent Jars” Sunday, December 6th, 1:30pm meet at Minnetrista, Christmas Pitch-In Dinner

We have been told that fruit jar and bottle collector Bob Harms passed away in mid-April this year. Our condolences go to his family.

Our club is a member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC). The FOHBC has many resources and interesting articles on their website as well as a list of bottle shows: http://www.fohbc.org/shows

The next North American Glass auction opens October 5th. Pre-view pictures are available now: http://www.gregspurgeon.com/auction

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Jean Harbron displayed a re-product ion amber QT BBGMCo (monogram) jar that was produced in 1976 by Ball Corporation to celebrate the company’s beginnings as a fruit jar manufacturer. These jars were blown by a skilled glass blower. The style of the milkglass lid is different than an original, but you have to pay close attention to the de-tails.

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