I believe that this is the most highly embossed jar out there and lots of embossing is a big selling point for me.  This jar happens to also be a pint, another big selling point for me and finally, it's an early pontilled jar.  Couldn't find a jar much more suited to my tastes.  This jar is embossed in three lines all the way around the jar but that wasn't enough, The jar makers apparently noticed that there was a bit of empty space left which could still be embossed so they embossed squares and circles between the lines.  Finally, they did the letters in three different fonts!  A bit overboard for their day but it makes for a great collectible jar in our day.

It's been claimed that the squares and circles are thought to represent something similar on soldered tin cans which were popular prior to fruit jars.  I'm not sure what kind of tin can had squares and circles on it - I've never seen one like that - so I really can't comment.

The half gallon version of this jar is really something to behold with all that embossing on it, but as usual, the pint is the rarest and most expensive size to acquire.

The patent spoken of on the jar is for their glass lids.  I've got to say, they're not bad lids.  The little spring (which I believe is a reproduction here) really holds them in place nicely and they're easy to put on.  Perhaps they were difficult to take off and that led to poor sales.

These jars were civil war period jars.