I love this jar and think its one of the greats.  The beautiful monogram in amber is really cool and this is the only amber example that we know of.  Its a great jar, common in the aqua - seems to have a lot going for it in my opinion, but for some reason, people don't know of it very much.

Anyway, like I say, it's the only amber version of this jar known.  Originally in Al Vignon's collection.  Al was a great guy and a big part of the collecting community and then one day just started mysteriously selling his jars off and hasn't hardly been heard of since.  I miss him and I know there are a lot of others who miss him also.  He had probably the best collection after Alex Kerr's was sold.  Al got the majority of his collection from George McConnel who I never met but had a fabulous collection in his day.  I'm assuming this jar was part of that collection.  Al had a number of jars which used the Potter and Bodine's glass lids.  I had one which needed one of these lids and asked Al if he had any spare he'd sell me.  He told me he'd look and later, in the box with another jar I'd bought from Al, was one of these lids which Al had sent along for free.  What a nice guy!

It's a bit difficult to see in the picture, but the Woodbury had a rather odd closure.  At the top of the lid you can just see the "knob" part of this closure.  Underneath the zinc band you see is a glass lid with a glass knob at the top which protrudes through a hole in the zinc lid you see.  The knob is threaded and a little "mini cap" screws down on top of it.  The top of this "mini-cap" is what you see in the picture just above the main portion of the lid.  I'm pretty sure this jar was made after zinc lids with glass inserts had appeared so I'm not sure what the advantage was supposed to be (you could take them out and wash them?).  The glass lid part of this jar (the one hidden beneath the cap) is aqua.  I doubt that an amber one was ever made.