This beautiful, hand decorated opal ware cigar jar bears the red banner mark. Wavecrest was the first line of hand decorated opal ware produced in Conneticut by the C.F. Monroe Decorating Company. All items decorated and sold by this company were expensive. The best artists of the day were hired to execute the designs. The company began operating in the mid 1880's and ceased production around 1916. Wavecrest has never been reproduced. I have collected the glass of C.F. Monroe since the early 1980s. Cigar jars are  ot plentiful. This jar stands 6" t and the base diameter is about 3 1/8 w. No damage to glass or to the ormulu band and hinge.