Name: Bernardin Wide Mouth Pint and a Half Mason Jar
Brand: Bernardin
SKU: 109435
Price: 10.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.94 (52 reviews)

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The details

At a glance

Volume: 750ml
Mouth: Wide mouth
Height: 6 7/8
Diameter: 3 3/8
Shape: Round
Colour: Clear
Made in: USA
Era: Modern
Embossing: Bernardin
Good for: Canning, Freezer, Storage

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About this jar

This jar's story

Straight sides and a wide, easy opening make this Bernardin the jar you'll reach for every day. The Bernardin name is embossed on the glass, a little nod to the Canadian cousin of the classic Ball jar.

Fill one with a morning smoothie or iced coffee and take it along in the car. Shake up a lunchtime salad with dressing on the bottom, store crisp carrot and celery sticks in the fridge, or blend a quick dressing right in the jar with an immersion blender.

Those straight walls are also wonderful in the freezer (leave a little room at the top). Warm the outside just a touch and the frozen contents slide right out.

It works with any wide mouth lid in our shop.

History

The story of Bernardin

From Evansville bottle caps to Canada's home-canning name, and the Gem lid canners fought to keep.

Made byBernardin (Bernardin Bottle Cap Company, later Bernardin Inc., Bernardin of Canada, and Bernardin Ltd.)
CountryUnited States (founded in Evansville, Indiana); later closely tied to Canada
Years1881 to present (name still used in Canada)

Bernardin began in 1881 in Evansville, Indiana, when Alfred Louis Bernardin started a bottle-cap business. He developed a metal clamp cap after corks blowing off wine bottles during shipment caused losses. The company moved into two-piece metal mason caps for home canning sometime between 1916 and 1922, and for much of its history it supplied lids that were sold with jars made by other companies.

Bernardin of Canada, Limited was incorporated in 1960, though it stayed wholly owned by Bernardin Inc. of Evansville. National Can bought Bernardin Inc. in 1980, and in November 1994 Alltrista completed its purchase of Bernardin of Canada. The Toronto-area lid plant closed in fall 2001, with production consolidated in Muncie, Indiana, but the Bernardin name carried on in Canada for home-preserving products.

The brand is especially remembered for its Canadian Gem lids. When Bernardin discontinued them in 2002, canners responded with petitions and public lobbying. Production returned in 2003, then ended again in spring 2022. Bernardin jars appeared later, and the start of its own-brand jar sales is still uncertain. The 2015 vintage green jars carry an "1881" inscription that honours the company's lid-making roots, not jars from that year.

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Quick facts

Alfred Bernardin's metal clamp cap grew out of losses from corks blowing off wine bottles during shipment.
Bernardin's first identified consumer newspaper ad for mason jar lids ran in Joplin, Missouri, on August 28, 1937.
When Bernardin was the only remaining supplier of metal Gem lids, its decision to discontinue them brought petitions, hate mail and public lobbying from Canadian canners.

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