Ball Perfect Mason Quart Jar Filled with Vintage Collectible

This is a Ball Perfect Mason quart jar with its lid, filled with an assortment of small vintage collectibles including buttons, marbles, Monopoly game pieces, Wade figurines, toy cars, and glass chandelier prisms.

I want to be straight with you about how this jar came together. I poured the contents into a bowl, mixed everything, and divided it between two jars. This is not a sealed jar somebody packed away in 1940 and forgot about. It is a real assortment of old small pieces, sorted by me, in a jar you can keep using afterward.

Details

• Item: Ball Perfect Mason jar with lid, filled with vintage small collectibles
• Item Type: Glass canning jar with mixed collectible contents
• Era: Vintage. Ball Perfect Mason jars were produced from the 1910s into the 1960s
• Materials: Molded glass jar with lid. Contents include glass, metal, plastic, and ceramic
• Color: Not stated in the original listing
• Maker and Mark: Ball. The Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company
• Pattern or Model: Perfect Mason
• Style: Farmhouse, rustic, collected shelf
• Dimensions: Quart size jar
• Special Features: Contents include vintage buttons, marbles, Monopoly game pieces, Wade figurines, small toy cars, glass chandelier prisms, and other small odds and ends

Condition Grade: Good

Positives

• Graded Good: The jar is complete and intact with wear consistent with its age and years of use.
• The lid is present and included with the jar.
• The jar is still usable for storage once the contents come out.

Issues / Wear

• The jar shows wear typical of an old piece that was used before it was collected.
• Contents show age appropriate wear and have not been graded piece by piece.
• What you see in the photos is what ships. Nothing beyond the pictured contents is included.

Condition Grade Key

• Near Fine: Almost perfect. Very minor signs of age only.
• Very Good: Shows light use. Sound and attractive with minor flaws.
• Good: Complete and intact. Noticeable wear consistent with age and use.
• Fair: Shows significant wear. Readable or usable but clearly used.

Collector's Notes

Ball Perfect Mason jars sat in nearly every American kitchen and cellar for fifty years, and they outlasted the food they were built to hold. That is how so many of them ended up as junk drawers in glass, catching buttons and marbles and whatever came out of a pocket at the end of the day.

This suits someone who collects small things and wants a pile to sort through, or someone decorating a shelf who would rather have real old objects behind the glass than filler.

The Wade figurines and the glass chandelier prisms are the pieces worth pulling out first. Wade made those little ceramic animals by the millions and people still hunt specific ones.

Take a look through the photos and see what catches your eye in there.