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Best regards, David Hi Neva, your jar probably held some type of food product such as pickles or a tomato-based product. It also has a type-typical which was formed by reheating glass at the shearing or cracking-off point and then rolling the pliable glass out and back on the extreme upper part of the neck with some type of glassworkers tool. Additional information and estimates are based on the empirical observations of the author over 50 years of experience; a fact often but not always noted.
After that time other jar types became more popular and the abrupt shoulder sealing Mason type jars with any embossing pattern appear to have disappeared from the market by the early 1920s or so Toulouse 1969a; Creswick 1987. Another way to tell the general age of a jar is to examine it from top to bottom.
How to Date Kerr Jars - Be wary if the details don't fit together to form an authentic picture.