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<p>[QUOTE="Rastella, post: 331687, member: 6722"]I don't think this jar made it to its intended purpose as a pharmacy "medicine" jar (term used loosely). From what I understand, medicine jars (over time) began to stink ... so they'd get thrown out. So I had to ask myself why wasn't this one? And why did it survive in such good condition? Well folks, as I was taking my last round of pictures, I noticed something that might answer that question - there is an area on the jar were the leaves are missing and I don't think that was intentional. Actually, I had noticed it before, but I didn't put two and two together. I always wondered why it had an X on the bottom (shows in above pics). It dawned on me that, along with the X, the jar may have been a reject for sale. However, the artisan, spending so much time on it, probably wasn't about to throw it away.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]110984[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Rastella, post: 331687, member: 6722"]I don't think this jar made it to its intended purpose as a pharmacy "medicine" jar (term used loosely). From what I understand, medicine jars (over time) began to stink ... so they'd get thrown out. So I had to ask myself why wasn't this one? And why did it survive in such good condition? Well folks, as I was taking my last round of pictures, I noticed something that might answer that question - there is an area on the jar were the leaves are missing and I don't think that was intentional. Actually, I had noticed it before, but I didn't put two and two together. I always wondered why it had an X on the bottom (shows in above pics). It dawned on me that, along with the X, the jar may have been a reject for sale. However, the artisan, spending so much time on it, probably wasn't about to throw it away. [ATTACH=full]110984[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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