Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1971.120.008ab |
Object Name |
Jar, Preserving |
Title |
PERFECT SEAL Fruit Sealer |
Lexicon category |
4: T&E For Materials |
Date |
20th-century |
Artist |
Dominion Glass Company |
Made |
Dominion Glass Company? |
Place of Origin |
Canada |
Description |
PERFECT SEAL one-quart size preserving jar (fruit sealer), a&b. The pressed glass has the Perfect Seal wreath-style logo embossed. There is a colourless glass sealer lid that has a wire fastener. |
Provenance |
Unknown. Last owned by Stanley and Islay Michael (neé Brigham), of #RR 6 Owen Sound (on a farm in Sydenham Township, Grey County). May have belonged to his parents Francis Edgar Michael and Mary Jane Michael (neé Hodgson), previously. |
Collection |
Food Processing Tools & Equipment |
Material |
Glass/Wire |
Found |
Sydenham Township (formerly), Municipality of Meaford, Grey County |
People |
Michael, Stanley |
Function |
A reusable container that would be sterilized in boiling hot water and then filled with sterilized cooked food (e.g. stewed fruit, tomatoes, pickles, relish). It would then be hermetically sealed and this would preserve the food until the jar was opened. Once opened, the food had to be eaten promptly before spoilage occurred. "Home canning" was often done in the 20th-century. |