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  Winfield CFJ Co Cap Marking.jpg - WINFIELD PATENT LAMP I - Tin face lamp with brass screw top, 2 5/8 in. high to lid, marked on lid PAT’D MARCH 30, 58 EXT’D MARCH 30, 72 with fancy scroll CFJ Co logo, lid with cork liner (The William C. Winfield patent oil wick lamp is one of but a very few wick lamps with screw lids. Winfield lived in Hubbard, Ohio and was issued his first patent for a miner’s lamp (No.115,143) on May 23, 1871. His second patent included a cork disk and a breather hole in the cap (No.126,606) and was issued on May 7, 1872. The lid on the second patent lamp is domed on top to provide for an air space above the cork disk. Some of the Winfield patent lamps include a plain brass lid but a few are marked by a fancy scroll logo on the domed brass lid top. This logo is the trade mark monogram of the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company whose office was located at 66 Warren Street in New York City and whose factory was in New Brunswick, NJ. Consolidated was formed on Dec. 12, 1871 when the Sheet Metal Screw Company of New York City merged with several other companies. Lewis R. Boyd, owner of the Sheet Metal Screw Company, was elected president. Boyd formed his old company in 1862 after acquiring the patent rights for screw caps and threaded glass jars originally owned by John L. Mason. His company sold Mason’s patent jars and screw caps right up till the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company was started. Boyd also owned several patents including the most noteworthy for an Improved Mode of Preventing Corrosion in Metallic Caps granted on March 30, 1869. The patent text called for a glass lining-plate to be inserted in the well-known cap used with the so called "Mason Jar," for the purpose of preventing the disagreeable flavor imparted to the jar contents if the food came into contact with the zinc cap. Consolidated along with the Hero Fruit Jar Company of Philadelphia dominated the fruit jar business from the early 1870s till the turn of the century. Of interest is an 1892 Catalogue and Price List of the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company for Sheet Metal Goods which offers five Miner and Driver Lamps including the Winfield patent lamp with the brass screw lid. The marking on the CFJ Co logo lid includes wording around the edge PAT’D MARCH 30, 58 EXT’D MARCH 30, 72. These dates refer to John Mason's lathe-chuck patent to make screw lids.)  
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Winfield CFJ Co Cap Marking | WINFIELD PATENT LAMP I - Tin face lamp with brass screw top, 2 5/8 in. high to lid, marked on lid PAT’D MARCH 30, 58 EXT’D MARCH 30, 72 with fancy scroll CFJ Co logo, lid with cork liner (The William C. Winfield patent oil wick lamp is one of but a very few wick lamps with screw lids. Winfield lived in Hubbard, Ohio and was issued his first patent for a miner’s lamp (No.115,143) on May 23, 1871. His second patent included a cork disk and a breather hole in the cap (No.126,606) and was issued on May 7, 1872. The lid on the second patent lamp is domed on top to provide for an air space above the cork disk. Some of the Winfield patent lamps include a plain brass lid but a few are marked by a fancy scroll logo on the domed brass lid top. This logo is the trade mark monogram of the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company whose office was located at 66 Warren Street in New York City and whose factory was in New Brunswick, NJ. Consolidated was formed on Dec. 12, 1871 when the Sheet Metal Screw Company of New York City merged with several other companies. Lewis R. Boyd, owner of the Sheet Metal Screw Company, was elected president. Boyd formed his old company in 1862 after acquiring the patent rights for screw caps and threaded glass jars originally owned by John L. Mason. His company sold Mason’s patent jars and screw caps right up till the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company was started. Boyd also owned several patents including the most noteworthy for an Improved Mode of Preventing Corrosion in Metallic Caps granted on March 30, 1869. The patent text called for a glass lining-plate to be inserted in the well-known cap used with the so called "Mason Jar," for the purpose of preventing the disagreeable flavor imparted to the jar contents if the food came into contact with the zinc cap. Consolidated along with the Hero Fruit Jar Company of Philadelphia dominated the fruit jar business from the early 1870s till the turn of the century. Of interest is an 1892 Catalogue and Price List of the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company for Sheet Metal Goods which offers five Miner and Driver Lamps including the Winfield patent lamp with the brass screw lid. The marking on the CFJ Co logo lid includes wording around the edge PAT’D MARCH 30, 58 EXT’D MARCH 30, 72. These dates refer to John Mason's lathe-chuck patent to make screw lids.) Download Original Image
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