Size: Tram poster (cca. 24 x 17 cm). Mason jar is a 1930s vintage Hungarian commecial advertising poster designed by Mariann Preszler The Parizsi Nagyaruhaz Paris Grand Department Store which opened in 1910 was the first significant department store building in Budapest Its facade towards Andrassy Avenue was built in Art Nouveau style while the part facing Paulay Ede Street has the characteristic features of the Neo Renaissance Today it functions as a bookstore with a caf which is decorated with the paintings of K roly Lotz A Mason jar named after John Landis Mason who first invented and patented it in 1858 is a molded glass jar used in home canning to preserve food The jar s mouth has a screw thread on its outer perimeter to accept a metal ring or band The band when screwed down presses a separate stamped tin plated steel disc shaped lid against the jar s rim An integral rubber ring on the underside of the lid creates a hermetic seal The bands and lids usually come with new jars but t