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I found this old gallon jug in the blue ridge mountains of Virginia while land surveying a boundary line, it has a metal screw off lid. only markings are the "one gallon" on the side... and on the bottom of the jug the "H" with a smaller "A" logo (Hazel Atlas I've determined) in the center above it a 1-7 and under the "HA" logo a "K" the jug has remnants of a powder, slight odor to it but its much to faint to identify just trying to figure out a close age and original purpose for the jug any help would be most appreciated
Found in the woods in a region known for moonshining...it could very well be someone's moonshine jug. But it really could have been used for anything. They didn't have plastic jugs back then so glass jugs like that were used for all sorts of things. Water, chemicals, booze, you name it. I've seen many similar jugs, but none were marked that I recall. Hazel-Atlas was a prolific producer of glass jars.
As a very loose, general rule, it's best not to get too excited over Atlas glass unless it's a specialty item or some of that radioactive depression glass.
I collect and some of my favorites are the Atlas jars but they are on the bottom of the list as far as value in my collection.
I don't know for sure about Atlas but I seem to remember that Kerr jars didn't get a "screw top" until 1907. The screw top is a more modern form than jars with baling wire and glass tops.
And the amber color of the jug suggests that it originally contained something that could be affected by sunlight. That's why glass bottle manufacturers colored glass amber or blue.
So my guess is that it was made post 1907 and originally was made to contain a chemical. It could have had any number of uses over time, though!
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