Millville hitall’s Paten – Half Quart

Millville

Whitall’s Paten (missing letters)


Whitall, Tatum Co., Millville, New Jersey

Aquamarine Half Quart

Provenance: Jerry McCann Collection

Here is a rather odd-looking half-quart Millville Atmospheric Fruit Jar that was created by taking a “rounded shoulder” quart mold and adapting it to use only the top portion of the jar with the same bottom. This aqua jar is extremely rare.

The container is embossed in an arch ‘MILLVILLE’ on the reverse. The embossed ‘ATMOSPHERIC FRUIT JAR’ letters are not used beneath Millville. Most of the ‘W’ of ‘WHITALL’S’ and the last ‘T’ of ‘PATENT’ are missing from the arched ‘WHITALL’S PATENT’ letters on the front as no attempt to shift or reduce the embossed copy on the mold occurred.

Cut off half-quart of a Millville Whitall’s Patent jar has missing copy parts on both sides of the jar.

Our museum example of a rounded shoulder half quart jar is hand blown with a tooled applied lip. The closure is a top seal (gasket in a lip groove) using a glass lid held down by a cast-iron yoke clamp with a thumbscrew.

We have also pictured a more common one-half pint ‘square shoulder’ example. You can see an example below and in the scrolling images above.

Millville Atmospheric Fruit Jar one-half pint square shoulder example

The museum has discussed and pictured the Whitall Patent, Whitall, Tatem & Company, and John M. Whitall of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania previously. You can review this information by selecting the links below.

See the museum example of a cobalt blue Millville Atmospheric Fruit Jar.

See the museum example of a Millville Improved WTCO (monogram) jar.

Primary Image: The Millville Whitall’s Patent missing letters jar imaged on location by the FOHBC Virtual Museum midwest studio led by Alan DeMaison.

Support: Reference to Fruit Jar Annual 2020 – The Guide to Collecting Fruit Jars by Jerome J. McCann

Support: Reference to Red Book #11, the Collector’s Guide to Old Fruit Jars by Douglas M. Leybourne, Jr.

Support Image: Millville Atmospheric Fruit Jar half-pint. – Greg Spurgeon and North American Glass.

Support Image: Lot 5647: MILLVILLE ATMOSPHERIC FRUIT JAR Half Pint. Aquamarine. Original glass lid and original cast iron yoke clamp with thumbscrew. Embossing: strong, note the lettered logos are truncated because the jar was blown in a cut-down pint mold. Base: unmarked. Age: late 1800s – Greg Spurgeon, North American Glass

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