The large 20 to 21 inch jars,"Wise Old Owl " design were mostly made by Bloomingdale Glass in the late 60's early 70's. I was told at one time that they were often used for attraction at Carnivals. A lot of stores used them to display individual wrapped gum and candies as dispensers. Similar to the large Dill Pickle Jars. They will hold approximately 5 gallons.
Some were molded to have a tin screw on lid and others have/had a wooden block stopper as a lid. I am not at all sure but have an idea they all had one or the other at the time and the lids/stoppers have either rusted beyond use or in the wood lost, rotted, or split rendering them unusable.
I have one with a wooden stopper and have it because I went to a carnival with my father and a couple of his brothers. Uncle Oliver was quite strong and hit the target with a mallet hard enough to ring the bell. When he won the thing he gave it to me as a present for my up-coming birthday. I think I was 29-30, maybe a year or two older, at the time. That would have made the Carnival in 1965-1969.
