2 Kerr, 1 Drey and 1 Rath's
c1920s Rath's Black Hawk Food Products the Rath Packing Co. Waterloo, Iowa, Quart Canning Fruit Jar , with embossing as follows ( Rath's Black Hawk Food Products the Rath Packing Co. Waterloo, Iowa ), screw top finish with zinc cover , clear in color, Quart in size , measures 7 1/8 inches tall
Kerr's Glass Jars
Kerr is most well known as producers of several kinds of fruit jars used for home canning. Kerr had glass manufacturing plants located at: Altoona, Kansas (from 1909-1912); Sand Springs, Oklahoma (beginning in 1912); Huntington, West Virginia (from 1933; this plant closed December 7, 1982 – information from Mike Harmon); Santa Ana, California (from 1943); Plainfield, Illinois (from 1964); Dunkirk, Indiana (from 1968); Millville, New Jersey (1968- see more information on the Millville location at the Whitall Tatum Company page) and Waxahachie, Texas (from 1968).
Drey's GLass Jar Info
The Drey Perfect Masons were made from the late teens to 1925.
Then in 1925, as GJUIS states, Ball bought out the parent company, Schram, that produced the Drey jars. Ball altered the moulds on some of these after acquisition so that Drey read Ball and continued to make some of these with PERFECT offset to the left of MASON. Usually, you can read the word Drey below the word Ball quite easily on these reworked examples. And almost always you can still see the long tail of the y under the Ball name.
Ball also continued to make the DREY PERFECT MASON jar for a few more years, but they centered the embossing on these. So it is easy to tell if a DREY PERFECT MASON was made by Ball or Drey. If the embossing is offset, it was Drey made. If it is centered it was Ball made, even though it is embossed DREY PERFECT MASON
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