Pressed, blue-green colored canning jar with screw-on zinc cover.
jars
covers (closures)
glass (material)
pressing
zinc
Glass
Pressed
Zinc
JAR
Molded on front: MASON'S/PATENT NOV.30th/1858 Inside cover: GENUINE ZINC CAP/FOR BALL MASON JARS
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.410A,B
Ball Brothers Company (Manufacturer)
7 (H), 3.75 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.410AB
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