Canisters Lids
Looking for a replacement canister for a ceramic set, no name on the canisters, where to start?
The canisters are white, with a different type of fruit on each one. The one I am looking for is a pear. They are cylindrical, have wooden lids with rubber seals. There are no markings to indicate a brand name, and I don’t know where they were purchased.
If you have a blog, take a digital photo of the (remaining) set and post it online.
If not, you still may be able to use the Internet for research and possible purchase of the missing pear-themed jar. There is an active antique market for kitchen pretties, especially things like unusual or “classically handsome” dishes and cookie jars, and I’m guessing food canisters, too.
This is probably the type of google situation in which your knowledge of the field (and accurate possible price ranges) will double with each half hour online that you’re willing to invest. You might find a fan website that specializes in your canisters. In a while (but possibly a long while) you’ll come across that perfect site that you wish you had lucked onto earlier. That’s my guess.
This is not to sound presumptous, but first, really scrutinize your pieces on the bottom, all over the insides, toward the side bottoms and inside the lids; you might get a tiny “Made in Japan” or “Cambridge Oh.” or some such thing. If the canisters were made in the USA (and if they totally lack marking, they probably were), and are of the type of ceramic that has to be molded, glazed and painted (i.e. were labor-intensive/and or individuated), very, very good chances you’ll find a site or collector’s club that specializes in your line.
It doesn’t sound like it at all, but I’ll take a shot — if the canisters have raised bumps (“hobnails”) and primarily are of a slightly translucent “milk glass,” please go online to fentonartglass.com. Fenton Art Glass of Williamsburg, West Virginia, is still alive and kicking and has churned out a lot of hobnail milk-glass at various times its 104-year history. The wooden lids argue against it but the Fenton website is so good it’s worth a peek. (fentonartglass.com).
Can you guess the era in which these were made? In my mind’s eye the wood argues for the 1960s and 1970s, and if the wood has a teakish cast (light neutral brown) the odds improve that they were imported. The rubber seals (something like the gaskets on French canning jars??) argue relative modernity as well. Are the seals of some color other than black?
I’m not condemning you to the keyboard yet — there is room for a little family archaeology as well. Would an aunt, uncle or grandparent hazard a guess as to where these canisters came from and when? Possibly a wedding present to your parents, or something your mother bought when you were very young or not yet born? Did your mom collect trading stamps from the store, like S&H Green Stamps? That company peaked in the Fifties and Sixties but stayed in business in reduced form until at least the Eighties. Have you ever seen anything similar while driving by or attending a yard sale?
Happy googling! Perhaps another poster will come along and nail it. Just remember the point of a hobby is to enjoy it!
– al-in-chgo
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