Jar beer
Ceramic beer jar from Frontenac Breweries Limited Montreal. Cream-colored, it features a metal clamshell cap and a handle on the back. The front features black painted lettering.
- Accession Number 2022.26.10
- Fabricant / Éditeur The Frontenac Breweries Limited
- Period 1st quarter of the 20th century
- Materials ceramics, metal
- Measurements 25 x 10,8 x 13,6 cm
Historical context
This ceramic beer bottle features a “Lightning” closure, a toggle system mainly used on soft-drink bottles. Invented and patented in New York in 1875, it consists of a porcelain seal with a rubber gasket attached to a wire ring. These pivoting closures were very popular between 1880 and 1920.
Frontenac Breweries was founded in Montreal in 1911. Its president and mayor of the municipality of Outremont, Joseph Beaubien (1...
- Accession Number 2022.26.10
- Fabricant / Éditeur The Frontenac Breweries Limited
- Period 1st quarter of the 20th century
- Materials ceramics, metal
- Measurements 25 x 10,8 x 13,6 cm
© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, donation by Dave St-Martin, 2022.026.010
Photo by Victor Diaz Lamich
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