Ball Vintage Mason Jar Giveaway
Welcome to the Fox Hollow Cottage Ball Mason Jar giveaway! Yep, I’m giving away a case of those pretty mason jars we all know and love. A brand new set of the limited edition Heritage Collection that was released by the Ball company to be exact. In that perfectly blissful shade of blue!
I ran across a big display one day and I recalled several of you on facebook saying you could not find them where you lived so I grabbed some for me, and some for you! Yay us.
I’ve been decorating with and simply enjoying the beauty of the real-deal vintage Ball mason jars for years and years. I’ve picked them up at antique malls, tag and estate sales.
These were an estate sale find. Filled with shells and pretty rocks. I just gave it all a fresh washing when I got them home. I also found some WWII era newspapers at that sale. Treasures to be sure and rich rich with nostalgia!
These played utensil service holders at Easter one year.
I love, love, love to drink from straws and this big daddy quart sized Qt keeps them handy for me!
They just fit in everywhere so effortlessly…
pop in some fresh flowers, no matter how casual, and they are simply delightful!
I’m so glad they decided to release this affordable, easy to find version of the old classic.
Because… I think pinterest might be to blame for making them harder to find!
You know, it’s not every girl who can stumble upon a cache like this!!!!
Can you imagine? This Ball jar junkie would go crazy (and my hubby would have ta kill me)! I mean, after all… technically, I could fit all those in my car.
I think I could resist the seal though. Pretty sure…
Yeah. I could.
DID YOU KNOW?
The term ‘mason jar’ is, in fact, ageneric trademark—à la Xerox, Kleenex, Jell-O et al (fun fact: phillips, as in the screw head, and zipper are also in the mix)—named after John Landis Mason’s clever 1858 patent, No. 22,186, for a zinc screw-top lid. The tinsmith’s innovation was to create a seal inside the lid, as opposed to attempting to make a lid that was flush with the jar: glassmaking techniques of that era allowed for rough threading, but the tolerance wasn’t nearly accurate enough to create the airtight seal needed to preserve perishables. By grinding the lip of the glass until it was nearly flat (known as a ‘square shoulder’) and inserting a simple rubber gasket inside the lid, Mason achieved a sufficiently airtight seal, and his namesake was born.1
Introduced in 1913 in Muncie, IN, the name “Perfect Mason” acknowledged the first-ever self-manufacture of each part of the Ball jar—ensuring a perfect fit and revolutionizing the home canning process by providing canners with matching jars, lids and bands in a single unit. The Ball Heritage Collection Pint Jars feature a vintage-inspired blue tint, period-correct logo and anniversary embossment.
Colored jars were considered better for canning use, as they block some light from reaching the food, which helps to retain flavor and nutritional value longer. More rarely, jars will turn up in amber, and occasionally in darker shades of green. Rarer still are cobalt blues, blacks, and milk glass jars. Some unscrupulous dealers will irradiate jars to bring out colors not original to the jar.
How interesting! Love learning tidbits. I’ve seen amber before, and even the green, but never a cobalt, black or milk glass. I’ll be keeping my eyes open, to at least snap a picture to share if I run across those colors.
And while they don’t have the same timeworn flavor of the true vintage version…
I think with the addition of some flowers, or putting our own personal touch on them, they can be pretty fabulous too!
Thanks for stopping by and much luck!!!! XX
PS – This isn’t a sponsored giveaway, just my way of saying thanks for hanging out with me, and I pretty much think you are all super awesome. Sure would not be the same without you!!
Melissa says
I just love the blue mason jars, and am glad the new version is a slightly different shade of blue; it will be fun to mix and match them!
janet king says
love the jars
Jeri Ann Guth says
These are just beautiful!
ChiWei says
I found a stash down the street once at a garage sale – 12 vintage ones with the clip on tops for , wait for it. $5. Plus a couple teeny little ones, thrown in for fun. I almost walked away and then hit myself and said “ARE YOU A BLOGGER OR WHAT?!” so they came home with me. obviously.
Shannon at Fox Hollow Cottage says
Blogger or not, So-so-so would have bought them. Tiny ones too? I’ve never seen any. Just in pictures. Sort of like Big Foot. lol
Linda Steelman Jarraf says
Would love to win these. those little ones are too cute
Shannon at Fox Hollow Cottage says
I know! Aren’t they? I would love to have a few minis!
Julie W says
I love the blue mason jars! Like others, I have not seen them where I’m at, so this would be a huge boon!
Tessa says
I would love those they are beautiful
mary fanara coleman says
These would be so pretty with fresh cut flowers. I love them.
Paige Gonzalez says
I love these! I have never seen new ones in blue, only white. I have a few and want purple too but they are always harder to find and more expensive. Thank you for sharing so many ways to use them in the home!!!
Amy says
I love the blue Ball jars! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
Melissa M says
Oh man, these are beautiful! I would never can anything with these for fear of cracking them. They would be well-used as decorations around my house, though!
Shannon at Fox Hollow Cottage says
I think you have to cook to can, right? lol! I decorate with them only 😉
may says
WOW…Thank you so much for the chance to win these Fabulous balls blue jars…I can’t find them anywhere in the UK…. you are so generous…. Hugs May x x x
Kelsey @ Tattered and Inked says
SO excited about this giveaway!!!!! Such gorgeousness 🙂
Angela W says
Awesome giveaway! If I win I will give these to my wonderful grandmother!!
Donna Becker says
I would so love to win these!! I have wanted some since they came out but have been unable to afford them. I wish i had your collection, I love the older Ball & Mason jars
Shannon at Fox Hollow Cottage says
Some of those pictured are the same jars. I think I have about.. 8 or 10 altogether.