5 Lg Antique 1920s Ball Perfect Mason Blue Glass Canning Jars 64oz Zinc Lid 10"

Description

Set of 5 early 20th century Ball Perfect Mason blue glass screw top canning jars. Three with zinc lids and two two-part brass ring lids. Bases marked 10, 14, 12, 3 and 5. Mark used from 1923-1933.

"In 1880, Frank C. and Edmund B. Ball, two of the five Ball brothers, borrowed $200 from their uncle, George Harvey Ball, founder and first president of Keuka College, to buy the Wooden Jacket Can Company, a small manufacturing business in Buffalo, New York. Soon, the three other brothers (William, Lucius, and George) joined Frank and Edmund in Buffalo. The Ball brothers' company made tin cans encased in wooden jackets to hold kerosene, paints, or varnishes. The contents tended to corrode the tin cans. So they began experimenting with the use of a glass jar. With the experiment a success, the Ball Brothers decided to open their own glass jar manufacturing factory in the early 1880s. The brothers — Edmund, Frank, George, Lucius and William — moved the company from Buffalo, New York, to Muncie, Indiana, in 1887 to take advantage of abundant natural gas reserves and expand production. The 1900 Census stated, The largest fruit jar plant in the world, with a daily capacity of 240,000 jars, all machine-made, is in Indiana. Phillips combined the information about jar production with the numbers cited in the Census to come up with claim that Ball Brothers became the largest producer of fruit jars in the country. Anticipating growth and diversification, the company simplified their name from Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company to Ball Brothers Company. In 1956 Ball forms the Ball Brothers Research Corporation. Known today as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. The company produces space systems engineering products, telecommunications technology, electro-optics, and cryogenics materials for government and commercial customers. In 1969 Ball enters the beverage can business, acquiring Jeffco manufacturing co. in Golden, Colorado, to form its metal beverage container operations as well as changing its name to Ball Corporation. Ball became a publicly traded stock listed on New York Stock Exchange in 1973. In 1993 Ball acquires Heekin Can, Inc. Heekin is the largest regional manufacturer of metal food containers in the U.S. prior to the acquisition. Combined with Ball Packaging Products Canada, Inc.’s six plants, the eleven former Heekin plants make Ball the third-largest producer of metal food-and-aerosol cans in the North American market. And in 1995, Ball forms Latapack-Ball Embalagens Ltda joint-venture; enters Brazilian beverage can market. Also in '95 Ball Aerospace delivers corrective optics to repair the Hubble space telescope. Ball’s aerospace business converts to a wholly-owned subsidiary, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. In 1996 Ball exits the glass jar business for which it is widely known. Ball sells its remaining interest in Ball-Foster Glass Company to Group Saint Gobain. It had entered a joint venture with the company a year earlier. In 1997 Ball acquires M.C. Packaging Ltd. in China. Combined with Ball’s FTB Packaging Ltd. joint venture there, it makes Ball the largest supplier of cans in the Chinese market. Ball acquires Schmalbach-Lubeca AG, the German-based metal-can beverage company, to create Ball Packaging Europe in 2002. In 2006 Ball acquires U.S. Can, a U.S.-based aerosol and specialty metal packaging company, and merges it with Ball’s metal food-packaging operations to form the metal food and household products packaging division. As of the 2010s Ball became the largest supplier of aluminumbeverage cans and aluminum slugs in the world. Ball Aerospace has contributed to the 2009 Kepler spacecraft carrying the largest camera ever sent by NASA beyond Earth's orbit, The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), now known as NOAA-20, launched in November 2017, and The James Webb Space Telescope in 2021." (Source: Ball)

Condition

Good Overall - Gentle wear; some residue/tarnish; mismatched lids

Dimensions

4.5" x 10" (Diameter x Height)