Stoneware No. 2 WEIR Pottery Co. Canning Jar, Monmouth

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For your consideration is a No. 2 WEIR jar. The writing on the lid is: No 2 THE WEIR' PAT MAR 1st 92' APRIL 16th 1901' The WEIR Pottery Co. was located in Monmouth, Illinois. In June of 1903 an advertisement in Ladies Home Journal announced that H. J. Hienz Co. (the maker of 57 varieties) had recently ordered 1,000,000 WEIR jars for preserves and apple butter; I wonder if this jar is one that 1,000,000. On Dec. 15, 1905, the board of directors voted to sell WEIR Pottery Co. to Albert D. Philpot, WEIR Pottery Co. then became Plant 2 of Western Stoneware Co. My logic tells me that it could not have been manufactured before April 16, 1901 and it was manufactured before Dec. 15,1905. This jar is made entirely of stoneware. The lower part of this jar is glazed with bristol glaze with the top part of this jar, the lid and the inside are glazed a deep, dark and shiny brown. The wire and steel closing and sealing mechanism works the way it is supposed to. From the table to the top of the sealing mechanism is approximately 8" and the bottom is approximately 4" in diameter. This jar has glaze skips and other manufacturing defects. This jar has 0 cracks. This jar has some roughness on the inside of the rim, I would hate to guarantee that this roughness is chips or factory defects, I do not know, I can feel it, but I cannot see it. Check out read more

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