This is one of the most beautiful and singular colors in any original jar.  When I first saw one of these jars (there are three or four I believe) I thought it was a repro.  I just couldn't believe that anybody would have voluntarily made a jar this color except in today's repro market.

Well, not true.  This is an original old jar in a color that no other fruit jar that I'm aware of, comes in.  When I put this jar between a deep cobalt and a teal it appears to be about halfway between.  I've taken to calling it "peacock" after a suggestion from Greg Spurgeon.

This one was dug up from an old well in Indiana and put up on Ebay with a $20 reserve.  I ended up paying $10,000 for it and it was in pretty bad shape - you couldn't see through it because it had been buried for so long.  I sent it off to Dave Rittenhouse for cleaning and he did an amazing job.  It looks just gorgeous - one of the best in my collection.  You can still see a very few scratches on it which speak to it's long history underground, but believe me, in your hands it's a stunning jar.

I'll also mention a very popular reproduction that is easy to recognize.  In the 70s, several half gallon repros were made in various "dream" colors with a Hero cross on the back.  You can see the Hero Cross at the top of this jar.  It's named after the Hero Glass company which used it to mark their jars.  Anyway, the hero cross on the back of the repros is a sloppily done version with rounded corners where you see the very sharp corners in this original.  There are no known original half gallons with the hero cross on back and the sloppily drawn hero cross just nails any of these as a reproduction.