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This is a beautiful smokey olive amber Lightning jar. The fellow
who sold it to me as part of a collection thought it was an incredibly
singular color. I don't know that I'm quite ready to go that far, but
it is certainly a great color.
Notice the "Blaske" sticker on the side. It's an indication that
this was once sold by the Blaske auction house. I leave it on just for
some information. It would be interesting to try to find the catalog
in which it was sold.
I should also mention something I haven't mentioned elsewhere.
Non-collectors normally refer to this type of closure as a "wire bail".
Collectors refer to it as a "Lightning" type closure, referring to this type
of jar. I'm not sure whether it originated with the Lightning jar but
I can't think of an earlier jar which uses it. It was used on beer
bottles too I believe for a time. There are various versions of it
over the years. The version most common on the Lightning is the old
style shown here with a wire around the bottle and a tab which the bail fits
into. Later on, jars would have a spot molded into the glass for this
purpose.
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