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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 3775676, member: 10944"]I just got a ginger jar from about the same time this would have been made. My lid fits lousy as well. This thought just entered my head and it’s probably a stupid one but there is absolutely no way porcelain could expand in the most minute way, is there? My jar has an old cork stuck in it. I’m guessing with contraction and expansion of the cork the porcelain couldn’t have shifted in shape or size just ever so slightly enough to change how the lid fit? Seems obvious it would just crack but I don’t know. They say there’s no such thing as a stupid question but this one might be at least bordering on it. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW both pieces seem to match to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 3775676, member: 10944"]I just got a ginger jar from about the same time this would have been made. My lid fits lousy as well. This thought just entered my head and it’s probably a stupid one but there is absolutely no way porcelain could expand in the most minute way, is there? My jar has an old cork stuck in it. I’m guessing with contraction and expansion of the cork the porcelain couldn’t have shifted in shape or size just ever so slightly enough to change how the lid fit? Seems obvious it would just crack but I don’t know. They say there’s no such thing as a stupid question but this one might be at least bordering on it. BTW both pieces seem to match to me.[/QUOTE]
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