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- Antique fruit jar - Glass canning jars, also known as fruit jars or Mason jars (named after its inventor John L. Mason) have been around since the early 1850s and today are eagerly sought after by collectors.
- John Landis Mason - John Landis Mason (1832 - February 1902) was a native of Philadelphia, a tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for fruit jars that have come to be known as Mason jars. Many such jars were printed with the line "Mason's Patent Nov 30th 1858".