H and H Blend Three-Pound Crystalvac Jar
A three-pound H and H Blend Coffee Crystalvac jar in clear glass, wearing a red-and-cream paper wrap label. The front shows the H and H lockup over “Blend Co...
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H and H Aqua Crystalvac Jar
A large H and H Crystalvac coffee jar in aqua-tinted glass. The front panel is embossed “H AND H” in block letters with the “Crystalvac” script above a strai...
Second Three Rivers 601-1 Crystalvac Jar (No Lid)
A second H and H Coffee Crystalvac jar in the 601-1 Three Rivers Glass Co. mold — clear glass, one-pound size, acquired without its lid. The 601-1 is the ear...
Second Three-Pound Owens-Illinois Crystalvac (Clear)
A second three-pound clear-glass H and H Crystalvac jar, added to the shelf about a year after the first large-handle clear example from 2017. Same form fact...
Crystalvac Jars — Waffle Glass vs. Smooth (Looking for the “Older Brother”)
Two empty square jars with screw necks, shot top-down on OSB: the left jar’s body is covered in a raised waffle or grid texture; the right jar is smooth clea...
Crystalvac Jar with Butter-Churn Attachment
A large square-base Crystalvac jar repurposed as the body of a hand-crank butter churn. The jar itself is a standard Owens-Illinois-era Crystalvac with the f...
One-Pound Crystalvac Jar, Three Rivers Mold 601-7
The square base of a clear one-pound Crystalvac jar, photographed against a striped carpet to pick up the embossing. The characteristic stack of marks is all...
Three-Pound Crystalvac Jar with Wire Handle and Original Red Lid
The large three-pound Crystalvac jar with its original red screw-cap lid still in place, a wire bail handle looped through the neck for carrying. The lid is ...
Crystalvac Jar Lid — We Roast It / Others Praise It (Embossed Metal)
Top-down view of a Crystalvac vacuum jar lid: the stamping runs in a circle — WE ROAST IT on the top arc, Crystalvac in script at the center over VACUUM PACK...
Three Rivers Glass Show, April 28-29 2017
Notes from the 2017 Three Rivers Glass Co. show, which marked the 80th anniversary of the factory’s closing. The show draws Crystalvac collectors and Three R...
Clear Crystalvac Quart Jar, Mold 601-1
A clear quart-size Crystalvac jar from Three Rivers Glass Co., photographed from the base to show off the embossed markings. “3 Rivers G” arcs across the top...
One Pound Three Rivers Crystalvac Jar
This jar came from Chappell Hill, Texas, via eBay — a one-pound Crystalvac in clear glass with a square shoulder and the usual wire-bail hardware (the listin...
Small Crystalvac Coffee Jar
This piece comes home from Grand Prairie, Texas. This is a small, clear Crystalvac Coffee jar. The mark is “3 Rivers Star”, the classic mark from Three Rive...
Small Amber Crystalvac Coffee Jar
We were excited when one of our web site visitors emailed about having a small amber H and H jar. Of the Crystalvac jars from Three Rivers Glass Co. Amber gl...
Large Crystalvac Coffee Jar
Our latest item came from Victoria, Texas. This is a large H and H Crystalvac jar with wire handle and plain lid. The blue lid caught our eye.
One Pound Three Rivers Crystalvac Jar
This jar on eBay came to us from Raymore, Missouri. It is a one pound Crystalvac in clear glass with a flat Ball embossed lid.
Crystalvac Jars from Comfort Texas
Today we visited the Comfort Antique Mall to collect our jar from Debbie Keneson. The jar is a one pound H and H Crystalvac clear glass jar.
Small Square Crystalvac Jar with Handle
This Crystalvac glass jar was won on eBay and comes from Tyler, Texas. It is in good condition with an embossed Crystalvac metal lid and wire handle.
Large Crystalvac Jar with Wooden Handle
Another large Crystalvac glass jar was won on eBay and comes from Colleyville, Texas. It is in good condition with an embossed metal lid. The bottom has Crys...
One Pound Crystalvac Jar
We bought a collection of jars found in an estate sale from MiksJunkDrawer in Somerset, Texas. It included a Crystalvac One Pound jar.
Large H and H Crystalvac jar, Georgetown, Texas
In February 2015 we added another large clear Crystalvac from Georgetown, Texas (seller dse61 on eBay). The original wire bail is present; the black embossed...
St. Mary’s Bulletin, February 1936 — H and H Crystalvac ad
The Bulletin at St. Mary’s in San Antonio is still published; this copy is Volume 13, Number 1, February 1936—cream paper, Gothic titling, church tower and c...
Small H and H Crystalvac with wire-and-wood holder
From KimmysKicks on Etsy we bought a Crystalvac-line jar from Bowie, Texas.
Third Crystalvac jar — clear, bail, base 5
On 8 July 2014 we closed another eBay Crystalvac for the comparison shelf. The jar is clear glass in the square Crystalvac plan: molded shoulder relief with ...
Three Tins and a Crystalvac jar, Comfort
Debbie Keneson set more stock aside for the collection on the same Comfort, Texas, circuit that handled the June 2014 hand-off in Three Rivers: a one-pound a...
A Crystalvac Jar from H and H Coffee
In hand is a large, clear, three-pound H and H Crystalvac jar: a tall square plan with big corner radii, a dark oxidized metal screw cap with a knurled edge,...
A Visit to Three Rivers
While traveling in South Texas, we made a day stop in Three Rivers, the home of the glassworks that made the square H and H Crystalvac line. Michael David Sm...
Glass Bottles from Three Rivers
Our path to the Three Rivers side of the Hoffmann-Hayman line started in an online write-up of Michael David Smith’s TEXAS GLASS: An Illustrated History of T...