OTHER RELATED WEB SITES AND REFERENCE MATERIAL

• The Federation of Historic Bottle Collectors

• Reggie's Antique Bottle Collectors Page -  great source for bottle info

• Bill Meier's Insulator Page -  great site for insulators and some jars (rare Brookfield - one of only a few known!)

• "A Primer on Fruit Jars"  article from the FOHBC magazine "Bottles and Extras" (Adobe Acrobat reader required)

• The Southeast Antique Bottle Club

• Zinclid@aol.com - Kevin Miniear has reproduction clamps for sale.  I haven't personally seen his work. E-mail him for some information.

• Darrell Plank's Home Page -  Great guy with some of the best jars I know of.  Check out his site sometime and tell him he needs to start buying some good jars!   :-)   Seriously though, probably one the the greatest collections of rare jars known.

• Jardoclowry@aol.com -  R. Wayne Lowry offers bottle and jar cleaning.  I can't tell you anything about the work, but if you email him I'm sure he'll be able to help you out.  And now a web page, click here .

• "The Red Book of Fruit Jars", Ninth Edition, 2000 by Douglas M. Leybourne Jr., over 400 pages, 8 1/2" x 11", softbound.  The price guide "bible".  An illustrated price guide listing over 5500 fruit jars. Includes catalog number, description color, and price. Representative drawing of a number of jars are included. Lists known reproduction jars, as well as a patent date reference. Tell him you saw it on this home page.  $35.00 ppd. from:
  

  Douglas M. Leybourne Jr P.O. Box 5417 Dept. WWW North Muskegon, MI 49445

   

• Fruitjars.com - run by Mike Sollars.  Some very good information and a nice site.

• Nick's Ball Fruit Jar Page

• A Yahoo! user group site has been set up for fruit jar collectors.  It's a bottle club on the web! Click here.

• Didn't see your link?  Drop me a line and I will try to post it!

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