I had seen blue mason jars online when I was looking up things to decorate with for my wedding and loved the look. I had tried to find a couple on craigslist once but they were going for like $8-$10 if I remember correctly and that to me was just too much for a jar. Well, I had forgotten about them until my husband sent me a text last Friday morning asking if I wanted any blue jars as they had four being sold. You see, we were in Richmond for a wedding and I had gone to the bridal shower and he had gone to help my Dad and brother out at a Boy Scout yard sale sorting things to be sold. I, of course, wanted them and paid $.25 for each of them. I thought it was sweet that he (and my sister who was up there) thought of me enough when they found them to text me.
Once home I wanted to see if I could find out anything else about them. As I was in Richmond I just used my phone and found the first website in my search that used the way the "Ball" logo to date jars within a couple years. As I don't know any of the other "jar terms" I had to stick with logos as thats something I do know.
I have two with lids that I think are from 1910-1923.
The other two do not have lids and are from somewhere in the vicinity of 1923-1933.
I don't know yet what I will do with them. I might just use the lidded ones for bean storage until I have more space to decorate a room somehow with them. I just love the pretty blue look of them.
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