Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1986.040.001ab |
Object Name |
Jar, Preserving |
Title |
PERFECT SEAL Preserving Jar |
Lexicon category |
4: T&E For Materials |
Date |
circa 1915 |
Artist |
Dominion Glass Company |
Made |
Dominion Glass Co. |
Place of Origin |
Montreal, Quebec |
Description |
PERFECT SEAL preserving jar. It is made of clear, colourless glass. It is a square-based, round-topped jar with a flanged neck. Mould-blown with smooth lip. Jar is fitted with an outer ridged glass seal and has a lightning closure (bail wire). It is a quart-sized "Perfect Seal" fruit preserving jar. |
Makers mark |
Dominion Glass Co., Montreal, Que. |
Provenance |
Manufactured by Dominion Glass. Dates to circa 1915. Dominion Glass was created in 1913, when the Diamond Flint Glass Co. (Limited) and other companies merged. The Dominion Glass Company Limited was known as such until 1976. In 1987, it was known as Domglas Inc. The book A CENTURY OF CANADIAN GLASS FRUIT JARS, by Douglas and Marion Bird and Charles Corke, 1971, mentions that Perfect Seal jars were made in large quantities in the 1910s and 1920s. Last owned by Dorothy Vick of Owen Sound, Grey County. |
Collection |
Food Processing Tools & Equipment |
Material |
Glass/Metal |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Vick, Horace |