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Greg Spurgeon owned this for a long time and I liked it very much since I
was specializing in cobalts. I could never get Greg to sell it to me
but eventually he wanted a jar of mine bad enough to do business and I
finally ended up with my prize. It was a good all round because Greg
was really looking for what I had.
Anyway, this is another extremely rare jar. I think there is
another but it's damaged. Hemingray is a very popular glass
manufacturer and their items are sought out by collectors of both jars (of
which they made many) and also collectors of insulators where Hemingray was
very big as a manufacturer.
These jars are rare but not impossible to find in aqua. They are
certainly very early. They are a type of wax sealer. Later wax
sealers had a groove ring placed upon the neck, but these very early
versions just had the shoulder pressed down to create a channel for the wax.
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