Oh, yeah, your seed from 95 looks like my Lazy Housewife, blast from the past. I answered your message, ignore the one asking about shape of the seed, as you answered it here. Here's the link for what Adaptive Seeds are calling "Early Riser", the pic of the beans as they hang on the vine looks like how my Lazy Housewife beans grew. I have left a question on their site asking about what the actual bean seed looks like, as I grew seed that a friend sent me that was packaged as Early Riser from Adaptive Seeds. The seeds were fat and round, and the beans were good, but not prolific and not long and growing in bunches like in the picture on Adaptive Seeds' website.

https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/vegetables/beans/pole-snap-bean-early-riser-organic/

All that said, your bean could be anything. But if it is delicious, and prolific, and easy to get seed from, I'd say you've got the perfect bean, so do not let it cross with anything else and save your seed every year.

Your seed from 85 looks like some kind of lima bean or a butter bean.

Bless your grandparents for their wisdom in creating that treasure trove of precious seed in the freezer. What an inheritance you have come into!

The link you sent shows a picture of how the beans grew on the vine, and yes, that’s exactly how they grew, in clusters.

So, my thinking is that that seed from ‘85 May have crossed with other beans she grew in her garden later down the road? I’m thinking of growing the seed from ‘85 and ‘95 in separate areas next year, and seeing what happens.

I have yet to taste the shell beans...

My Grandma still grows out the same beans, since she was given them by my great grandmother. They are also her favorite, and she states she’s never had any like them. She has no idea what they are, however. We are headed over there for Thanksgiving this week, and while over there, I may have a look at the seed she has. She’s probably grows a hundred feet every year. Her canned green beans are delicious.

I also gifted some seed to my aunt who had loved the bean as a kid but never could figure out what it was- now she has it.

Yes, those beans I had were wonderful when canned.

I think the shell beans would probably taste like cannellini beans or great northerns. But I would have to have the mother of all bumper crops in order to make me actually EAT a viable mature bean seed for this variety.