Since 1972 Midwest Glass Chatter March 2017 Meeting Minutes, March 5th, 2017 Club Officers Richard Cole, President 2904 W. Moore Rd. Muncie, IN 47304 765-288-8717 Mike James, Vice Pres. 5673 N. 300 E. Marion, IN 46952 765-664-7622 Jim Durr, Treasurer 500 W. Ohio St. Fortville, IN 46040 317-485-5854 Joe Coulson, Secretary/Editor 412 W. Smith Valley Rd. Greenwood, IN 46142 317-476-6409 An Index to the Club Library is available online. Please contact Dick Cole about items which you would like to check out. Membership The Midwest Glass Chatter is a monthly publication and is a forum through which collectors can share information. Membership cost is $15.00 per year, per family, due each January 31. All jar/bottle related collectors are welcome. Send to MAFJBC, Attn: James Durr, 500 W. Ohio St., Fortville, IN 46040 The March club meeting was held at Minnetrista in Muncie, Indiana. Club President Dick Cole opened the meeting and welcomed 11 club members. Jim Durr gave the Treasurer s report for February. The club renewed its membership in the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. Income included membership dues. The club continues to maintain a positive bank balance. Dave Rittenhouse mentioned that updates to our Muncie Jar Show Flyer are in the works. He would like to have new flyers produced before the end of March and start distributing them to people. The Fruit Jar Get- Together will be on Friday, January 12th, 2018, and the Jar Show will be on Saturday, January 13th, 2018. Dick went over our contract with Minnetrista for 2017. The included the list of club meeting dates at their facility in 2017. We are thankful to Minnetrista for providing such a nice place for our club to meet. Dick mentioned that the Cambridge City, Indiana show at the historic Huddleston Farmhouse is June 10th. It will be closely followed by our club meeting June 11th at Minnetrista. Mike James indicated that he will be coming up with additional themes for future club meetings. He is open to suggestions. Give him a call if you would like to volunteer to put on a program. Our current list of themes runs through May. Mike will provide themes for June and beyond. Upcoming club meetings are always listed on the back page of the newsletter and on our club website and FaceBook page. Jerry and Colleen Dixon agreed once again to host our annual club picnic in August. This special club meeting will be held August 13th in Muncie, Indiana at their home. More details to come. Upcoming shows: April 1st 2017 (Saturday) St. Clairsville, Ohio The Ohio Valley Bottle Club s Annual Bottle & Table Top Antiques Show, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, at the J.B. Martin Recreation Center, 102 Fair Avenue St. Clairsville, Ohio, Exit 216 off I-70; April 2nd 2017 (Sunday) Wilmington, Ohio The 3rd Annual Wilmington, Ohio Antique Bottle Show & Sale, Formerly at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, Columbus. 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Show Address: Roberts Centre, 123 Gano Road, Wilmington, Ohio (I-71 & US Rt. 68); April 8th 2017 (Saturday) Kalamazoo, Michigan The Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club s 38th Annual Show & Sale, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm; Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan; The next club meeting will be held April 2nd at Minnetrista in the Cantina at 1:30pm in Muncie, Indiana. The theme will be to bring jars or bottles that have manufacturing defects or errors. Mike James will put on a short program showing different defects and explain how they were made during the manufacturing process. Respectfully submitted, Joe Coulson
Midwest Glass Chatter March 2017 Page 2 Show and Tell The theme for the March meeting was to bring manufacturing sample jars or bottles or your favorite item. Dick Cole shared a very nice Ball Corporation go-with. It was a plastic drinking pitcher that commemorated the 1980 Olympic Games (side: figure of Greek Olympian /1980 Olympic Games) (base: This pitcher designed exclusively for the makers of Minute Maid by Don E. Harley Associates and molded by Ball Corporation). Dave Rittenhouse displayed a clear J.W. Beardsley jelly glass; a clear QT (RB #349-6) Ball Ideal test run jar (to commemorate the U.S. Bicentennial); and a clear PT (RB #2885 / SFJR #1172) Seal Pat. Feb. 24, 1914 Detroit, mich. / Victor Jar Co. (square jar, Dave reproduced the metal clips). Mike James shared a bottle with a carnival glass coating (the coating was put on after the bottle was formed; beer bottle shape; never put on the market; made by Owens-IIlinois); a clear very lightweight jelly jar made in the late 1970s or early 1980s (experimental material to give it light weight; had a paper label indicating it was a sample piece); an extremely dark amber Michelob bottle (this was a test piece; it failed because it was too hard to anneal the dark amber glass); a clear Miller High Life bottle (never made it to market); a light green sample bottle (made by Root in Terre Haute in the 1920s or 1930s); a light Bacardi green QT Ball Perfection (sample run color) (reverse: 1913-1915 100 Years of American Heritage Made In U.S.A.); a clear PT Ball Perfect Mason (sample run color) (reverse: 1913-1915 100 Years of American Heritage Made In U.S.A.); and an amber beer bottle made at Fairmount (sample bottle; with paper label). Mike told a story about when he was working for Fostoria. They were making an American punch bowl on the biggest hand machine ever made. They decided to make it at Indiana Glass in Dunkirk in black glass. The glass was too dark. They couldn t check the annealing. You have to be able to see through the glass to properly check the annealing. Mike tossed a half dollar coin into one, and it blew to pieces because it was not annealed correctly. He said that tossing the coin was like tossing ice into the punch bowl like customers would be doing. They had already made a bunch of them and had to discard them. Joe Coulson shared a primitive wood-framed mirror from the early 1900s. He recently acquired this item from Joshua Beagle. If you turn the frame around and look at the backside there is a piece of cardboard backing the mirror. The cardboard was from the end of a shipping box for Ball (3-L logo) half gallon fruit jars! This is one of the earliest cardboard shipping boxes made by Ball. They were first introduced in 1902. Jerry Dixon displayed a an aqua Pluto water bottle. The bottle was an unusual color for Pluto bottles. Colleen Dixon displayed an aqua tall HP (RB #1489 / SFJR #1301) Trade Mark Lightning (salesman sample); an aqua tall PT (RB #1493-1 / SFJR #1301) Trade Mark Lightning (base: PUTNAM); an aqua QT (RB #2880 / SFJR #1340) The Van Vliet Jar of 1881 (wire does not cross over embossing on the jar; groove on base for wire to tie in; repro wire closure); and a pottery half pint as well as a 5 gallon (RB #2937 / SFJR #1370) Weir Seal No. 4 Western Stoneware Co. Monmouth Illinois (on lid) (two tone brown and white) (purchased from Doug Leybourne). Lou Ebert shared salesman sample kerosene oil can (clear glass). This piece was made by Smith Glass Co. The company originated in Canton, Ohio. The Smith Glass Co. got their glass bodies from the Canton Glass Co. Canton moved to Marion, Indiana in 1890. Smith moved to Marion in 1891 and located just north of the Canton firm. Smith Glass Co. was only in business a few years. Gusty Monaghan displayed a light amber QT (RB #340 / SFJR #BF-2) BBGMCo (base: An Historic Reproduction No. 1 The Amber Buffalo Jar Muncie, Indiana 1976); an aqua bottle Anderson s Dermador ; and four different clear pharmacy bottles. These were purchased from Webb s Antique Mall in Centerville, Indiana. Gusty also shared an amber PT (RB #1123 / SFJR #485) Globe; and an aqua PT widemouth (RB #1124 / SFJR #486) Globe. These were purchased at Jimmy Reed s Antique Shop in Hagerstown, Indiana.
Midwest Glass Chatter March 2017 Page 3 Show and Tell, cont d Tall aqua PT and tall aqua HP TradeMark Lightning salesman samples Clear PT Victor jar, glass lid: Victor Jar Co. / Seal Pat. Feb. 24,1914 / Detroit. Mich. Front side of two modern sample run jars: PT Ball Perfect Mason & QT Ball Perfection Plastic Minute Maid drinking pitcher celebrating the 1980 Olympic Games and made by Ball Corporation Clear Beardsley jelly jar, closure: To Open Puncture Cover / Pat. July. 11 93 Reverse side of the same two modern sample run jars J.W. Beardsley S Sons New York U.S.A. Pat. July 11TH 1893 (on base) Light green, Root / R.G.Co. / Bottles / Light Green Flint and Amber
Midwest Glass Chatter March 2017 Page 4 Show and Tell, cont d Clear QT Ball Ideal sample run jar Clear sample beer bottle Amber beer sample bottle; label: After 5 days return to Fairmount Glass Corporation ; base: Pat. No. 2,392,574; base has notch for a built-in bottle opener sample carnival glass beer bottle Unusual aqua color for a Pluto water bottle base: figure of Pluto and the word Pluto Black glass sample beer bottle 5 gallon and 1/2 PT Weir stoneware jars Miniature salesman sample kerosene oil can made by Smith Glass Co. Clear lightweight glass jar label: Heye-Glas Aqua QT The Van Vliet Jar of 1881 Amber QT reproduction BBGMCo
Midwest Glass Chatter March 2017 Page 5 Show and Tell, cont d Four various clear pharmacy bottles and an aqua Anderson s Dermador Aqua PT widemouth Globe Amber PT Globe The front side of a primitive mirror from the early 1900s The backing material was the end of one of the earliest Ball cardboard shipping boxes depicting a Ball (3-L logo) jar New Book on Historical Bottle Identification Schulz, Peter D., Rebecca Allen, Bill Lindsey, and Jeanette K. Schulz, Editors. 2016. Baffle Marks and Pontil Scars: A Reader on Historic Bottle Identification. Society for Historical Archaeology, Special Publication Series No. 12, Germantown, MD. This huge (555 pages), recently released work is one of the best "bottle books" there is for helping with the complicated subject of bottle identification. This book includes - for the first time in print - a summary of this websites (Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website) bottle dating key as a chapter entitled "Summary Guide to Dating Bottles" by this author (pages 33 to 49). It also includes "Bottle Dating Worksheets" (pages 51 to 55) by Rebecca Allen and this author to assist in the systematic dating of an historic bottle based on the information in that dating key as well as other information on the website. In part, this book fulfills this authors long time desire to have a hard copy "field guide" version of this website for use by archaeologists (and others) by having at least the dating portions available in printed form to take to the field. Beyond that the book includes more information about historic bottle identification (typology), bottle production, and more than can be summarized here. More details can be found at this website: https://sha.org/bottle
Midwest Glass Chatter March 2017 Page 6 Canadian Fruit Jars & Bottles Go-Withs George Power of Ontario, Canada is one of our club members from Canada. He recently shared these wonderful items online. This envelope is from The Ontario Glass Co. Limited, of Kingsville, Ontario. It has a depiction of a Monarch fruit jar. No example of this fruit jar is known. Note the striking similarity to The Victor patented jars. This envelope is from The Beaver Flint Glass Co. Limited, Toronto, Canada. This company was a distributor (not manufacturer) for pharmaceutical bottles & etc.
Midwest Glass Chatter March 2017 Pssst Pass it Along A few club members have mentioned that they have jars and gowiths that they need to find a new home for: Selling my collection of over 150 canning jars. What do you need to complete YOUR collection? Send for my list. Richard Gibbons, (435) 634-8205, 1050 East Brigham Road, Unit #59, Saint George, UT 84790, or email at gibbons@infowest.com Dick Sorensen has put his collection up for sale which includes separate lists for fruit jars, jar company literature, and jar ring boxes. Please contact his wife, Connie, for price lists and further details: conniefsorensen135196@gmail.com We have wooden a Swayzee box, Boyd's box for jar caps, Mason Fruit Jar box and a Mason box for jar caps. 5 wooden box ends: Marion, Swayzee, Red Key Glass and Ball Fruit Jars. If interested you can call (765) 384-7659. Bob and Mary Jane Needler. Page 7
MIDWEST ANTIQUE FRUIT JAR & BOTTLE CLUB A jarrific place to share and learn Send articles and info here: Joe Coulson, Editor 412 W. Smith Valley Rd. Greenwood, IN 46142 Email: JoeCoulsonX5@gmail.com ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED WE RE ON THE WEB! HTTP://WWW.FRUITJAR.ORG AND FACEBOOK! HTTP://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ Our club meetings often feature a tailgate session at the end of the meeting. Club members bring items for sale or trade. You never know what interesting items may show up at any given meeting. Everyone is welcome to participate. Announcements Upcoming club meetings: Sunday, April 2nd, 2017, 1:30pm meet at Minnetrista, theme is jars or bottles that have manufacturing defects or errors. Mike James will put on a short program showing different defects and explain how they were made during the manufacturing process. Sunday, May 7th, 2017, 1:30pm meet at Minnetrista, theme is a favorite jar, bottle or item and a go-with for that jar, bottle or item (more than one of these would be great). Sunday, June 11th, 2017, 1:30pm meet at Minnetrista. Theme to be announced. Sunday, July 2nd, 2017, 1:30pm meet at Minnetrista. Theme to be announced. Sunday, August 13th, 2017, 1:30pm meet at the home of Jerry and Colleen Dixon for our annual club picnic. Our club is a member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC). The FOHBC has many resources and interesting articles on their website as well as a list of bottle shows: http://www.fohbc.org/shows Consider becoming a member of the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors if you are not already a member. Support bottle and jar collecting as well as receive their excellent bi-monthly publication: http://www.fohbc.org/individual-membership/ Our club is a member club of the FOHBC! The Jelly Jammers are a club devoted to collecting American jelly glasses that were used to hold all types of jams and jellies. They keep their website updated regularly: http://www.jellyjammers.org/ North American Glass s next auction is April 17th and will feature the Jan Hall Collection Part 1. http://www.gregspurgeon.com/auction