Flaccus Bros Steers Head Fruit Jar

Flaccus Bros

Steers Head
(Embossed Steers Head)

Fruit Jar

Flaccus Brothers

E.C. Flaccus Co.

Wheeling, West Virginia

Emerald Green

Provenance: Darrell Plank Collection

The Flaccus Bros Steers Head Fruit Jars are simply gorgeous with striking eye appeal, intricate decorative floral markings, and typography surrounding an embossed steer’s head.

The involvement of the Flaccus family with glass containers is complex and involved. While only Charles L. Flaccus actually manufactured bottles and jars, other family members used containers embossed with the Flaccus name. The name also appeared on numerous paper labels attached to glass jars.

The jars come in different sizes such as half-pints, pints and quarts and colors such as clear, amber, yellow-amber, milk glass, shades of green and sun-colored amethyst. Leybourne notes at least 18 variants in Red Book.

Read: The Dating Game: The C. L. Flaccus Glass Co.

Support: Secondary jar images courtesy of Greg Spurgeon and North American Glass.

Support: Secondary jar grouping from Jerry Ikeda and Jerry’s Jars web site

Support: Reference to The Dating Game: The C.L. Flaccus Glass Co. by Bill Lockhart, Pete Schulz, Carol Serr and Bill Lindsay, Bottles and Extras, November-December 2007

Support: Reference to The Flaccus Bros., E.C. Flaccus and Their Fabulous, Colorful, Embossed Jars by Bill Lockhart, Barry Bernas, Pete Schulz, Beau Schreiver, Carol Serr, and Bill Lindsey

Support: Reference to Red Book #11, the Collector’s Guide to Old Fruit Jars by Douglas M. Leybourne, Jr.