I found this jar while thrifting and I’ve never seen one with a glass top like this. Does anyone know anything about this type?
by theflyingnacho
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surfaholic15
Old school canning jars from Ball and Atlas often had glass lids with rubber gaskets and wire bails, or gaskets and rings. But bails were by far more common.
I learned to can using those along with modern ones lol.
Pretend-Panda
Someone else will be along who knows more, I am confident in this sub!
My ex’s mom had these, they were hand me downs from her mother (and probably grandmother). It was a four part system – jar, glass lid, rubber ring that went between the glass lid and the twist-on outer ring piece of lid.
The story in their family is that these were less expensive for canning because you didn’t have to replace the metal flat lids every year. The thing is that they do chip if not handled pretty gently.
My ex did make one jar of muscadine jelly in one of those jars – they got a rubber ring from Weck that fit – and the jar amazingly survived it and the little tab on the Weck ring pointed in the right direction, the jelly seemed fine. Their mom was furious when they told her about it though because – heirloom jar potentially destroyed.
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Old school canning jars from Ball and Atlas often had glass lids with rubber gaskets and wire bails, or gaskets and rings. But bails were by far more common.
I learned to can using those along with modern ones lol.
Someone else will be along who knows more, I am confident in this sub!
My ex’s mom had these, they were hand me downs from her mother (and probably grandmother). It was a four part system – jar, glass lid, rubber ring that went between the glass lid and the twist-on outer ring piece of lid.
The story in their family is that these were less expensive for canning because you didn’t have to replace the metal flat lids every year. The thing is that they do chip if not handled pretty gently.
My ex did make one jar of muscadine jelly in one of those jars – they got a rubber ring from Weck that fit – and the jar amazingly survived it and the little tab on the Weck ring pointed in the right direction, the jelly seemed fine. Their mom was furious when they told her about it though because – heirloom jar potentially destroyed.