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I saw these on Ebay. I've never seen anything like these before. Has anyone else seen these or know what they would be used for?

I think they are used to make sales on eBay...someone has developed a process to print logos on curved glass surfaces, and is producing a lot of items like these. The jars pictured could somehow be connected in the mind with antique phonographs, I suppose, but not for 40's or 50's jukeboxes. For that realm of collecting, someone is printing logos on large marbles and shot glasses, supposedly as "promo" items. They undoubtedly do not date to the same period as the names that they bear.

--Bob

Pure fantasy.

I thought it might be a good time to bring up another "fantasy" item again on here. From time to time you will see on Ebay wooden tubular containers. Sellers list these as needle containers. There are at least two variations that were made by a man in Florida 20+ years ago. One will have a paper label (aged) "Berliner Gramophone" etc (see pics)..... The other (also artificially aged) paper label "E.R. Johnson" etc.....
It makes me sick when I see these sell upwards of $300+...... . Even very reputable dealers have (unknowing) tried to sell these as "genuine"

They are NOT old and purely a fantasy piece. There were no such containers made by any of the above manufactures.
File this one in your memory.

The only genuine wooden tubular needle boxes I've seen were for sewing machine needles.

PHONOMIKE wrote:I saw these on Ebay. I've never seen anything like these before. Has anyone else seen these or know what they would be used for?

Not knowing what size the jars are, it is difficult to speculate on what practical use they might have.

On a spice rack in the kitchen perhaps?

Marbles

Anyone know what these are used for...Trash.

It follows the logic of many people in the antique stores that think if it looks old it must be old and value...ancient

epigramophone wrote:

PHONOMIKE wrote:I saw these on Ebay. I've never seen anything like these before. Has anyone else seen these or know what they would be used for?

Not knowing what size the jars are, it is difficult to speculate on what practical use they might have.

On a spice rack in the kitchen perhaps?

That was my thought. They sure look like spice bottles. Whatever they are, I looked them up on Ebay and they were bid up over 48 bucks last night. Individual bottles with the same logos have sold on Ebay for around $10, and they all seem to come from Canada. Sometimes when a brand name is bought from a "dead" company, the new owners will license the logos/artwork to other completely unrelated companies. Brand licensing is big business. Just like GM/Goodwrench tools, jacks, etc. They weren't made by GM, they were made by some outfit in China and imported to the U.S. with the GM Goodwrench logo to be sold at Wal-Mart or Checker Auto Parts. They only involvement GM had was selling their name. Probably whomever made those bottles did so for entirely innocent common purposes. Today's "Winchester" knives are imported by the same outfit that makes Gerber knives. I collect oil lamps, and during the 60's and 70's there was a "back to the old days" craze. A guy named John Scott who was in the electric lighting biz had various models of oil lamps made, some by the same British and U.S. brass makers who made them in the "old" days (I have one sitting here on my desk). English burners with "upscale" designs (the one on my desk is called a "duplex" burner, it has two wicks and two adjustment knobs) and brass tanks, good quality glass shades and chimneys made in the U.S. or England also. John Scott oil lamps often sell on Ebay and in antique stores as actual "antiques", for crazy prices, because they so closely resemble "originals", and have legitimate British markings and such, and because they are made to such high standards and using the same "old fashioned" techniques, they look like old originals in extremely good condition! Some collectors really hammer John Scott (Who is no longer with us on the mortal plane) for making "fakes"..and that wasn't his intention at all. He was just making very good oil lamps 40-50 years ago. He never advertised his lamps as "antiques", only as "original" John Scott lamps!

Check this out: http://www.rca.com/about/rca-trademark-management/