Jeannette Jadite #540 Round jar and cover, 32 oz 1938

Description

It is not often that you find these kitchen pieces without chips.  This is one of the exceptions as it has none.  Hazel Marie Weatherman shows this piece on page 204 of her book on Colored Glassware of the Depression Era 2.  The catalogue # 540 is taken from a 1938 brochure.  Measurements are 3.5" tall by 4&7/8" in diameter with lid on. The final photo shows it glow under a black light from the Thorium salts used to make the Depression Green glass used to mix with unsold milk glass.  As I used to lecture on the subject, the unmixed green may be seen on the bottom of the container at the top in the 4th photo.  Other colors were mixed to give other "opaque" colors too such as cobalt blue with milk glass to make Delphite and Amber glass with milk glass to make McKee's French Ivory.  Canary Yellow was used with milk glass to make Seville Yellow.  Of course these mixes  were done in Jeannette Pennsylvania by either Jeannette Glass or McKee glass.  Jeannette purchased the McKee plant in 1961 and moved in totally in 1962.  Hazel Marie did that research, not me.  Both companies are long gone now.  If you wonder where all the lids have disappeared check out the handles on Jeannette's left-overs and canisters. They are small and slippery so no surprise that they crashed a lot.  Ships in a 7 x 7 x 7 USPS priority shipping box at 2 pounds, 8 ounces.
Please wait for my invoice as USPS charges for insurance depending on the final money bid.
I estimate shipping, if as far as Boston, at 17.00 without insurance.  All of my shipping is insured.