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No, no one had answered my question off-list either, although I was contacted by some researchers in N England who were also looking for the answer to that question. On behalf of all of us, thank you! It doesn't tell me if the jars themselves were made (and filled) in Scotland or not, but it's a great lead.
The jars themselves were apparently mainly from the last quarter of the 19th and the first quarter of the 20th century. I have a reference for "once-fired jam jars" being patented by Midlothian Pottery in Portobello, Scotland, in 1882 (although they were apparently making them from 1880), but also to the 2 lb. white jam jar being one of the "celebrated innovations of the day" from the Britannia Pottery in Glasgow. Most of the Scottish potteries producing these kinds of utilitarian stonewares went out of business in the later 1920s, as glass jars replaced stoneware ones.
All of them are very similar in form, and my material has produced only three main styles: plain-sided with two horizontal grooves just below the shoulder; vertically ridged (often in 11-ridge panels), with at least some of these straight-sided; and one example that had panels like the previous but without the ridging. Fabric and glazes are more variable: the vast majority were Bristol glazed, but some are salt glazed; most are a pale stoneware, but some are only of whiteware or ironstone hardness, while a few have buff fabrics (of varying hardness). Most do not have maker's marks, and perhaps it is only the later examples that are marked.
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Elizabeth Ragan [log in to unmask]
Anthropology 410-548-4502
History Department
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Salisbury State University
Salisbury, MD 21801 USA
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