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Douglas M. Leybourne Jr P.O. Box 5417 Dept. WWW North Muskegon, MI 49445 (now in it's 10th edition)
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OTHER RELATED WEB SITES AND REFERENCE MATERIAL
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) by Dave Hinson
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", Tenth Edition, 2008 by Douglas M. Leybourne Jr., over 450 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 site. $40.00 ppd. from the author.
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Douglas M. Leybourne Jr P.O. Box 5417 Dept. WWW North Muskegon, MI 49445 (now in it's 10th edition)
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"How to Date Ball Jars" by Bob Clay. At one time Bob arguably had the best Ball jar collection known. This is probably the best tutorial written on dating the many variations of the Ball Jar.
A Yahoo! user group site has been set up for fruit jar collectors. It's a bottle club on the web! Click here.
http://www.balljars.net/ is a web site for Ball jar collectors run by Bruce Wayne, a hard core Ball jar collector.
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