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I'm always drawn to the old items. They seem always to be made of heavier, better materials and more skillfully crafted. This jar is among a batch my wife brought up from the cellar to do some canning. I don't know why it never caught my eye before. The inscription on the bottom says : Aug. 3, 1915 - Kerr Glass Mfg. Co., Sandy Springs, Oklahoma.

It seems years ago most products were stamped with, where, who, and when. It's just a glass jar, but the manufacturer was proud of it and wanted to be sure you knew who made it.

As a very small child, I was drawn to old things of all sorts. One such early
memory that poisoned my young mind was the wall of shelves behind the door
to Grandpa's garage. It was floor-to-ceiling covered with Grandma's retired
old jars, given to Grandpa when she bought newer, modern jars like the Kerr.
Grandpa used them to keep his gubbins sorted. Nuts, bolts, screws, nails of
different types and sizes, any sort of hardware or fastener he could save that
might spare him a trip to town to the hardware store. I remember going out
there by myself and just staring at all the markings and contents. We play that
same game in my shop today, except I am 60 years older.

The oldtimers would also screw the lids to the bottom of a cabinet to save on shelf space.