Very interesting, particularly in view of part of what I left out of Zumwalt's history of Gulden is the statement that "in May 1883... business was flourishing with the principal items other than mustard being olives, capers, cotton seed oil, catsup & Warkwickshire sauce."  A number of Gulden bottles have this concave neck and tall, narrow form, just like many of today's olive jars.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron May <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, October 8, 2007 12:31 pm
Subject: Re: Bottle ID help

> Although I do not have direct information about Jacob Crocket's 
> odd shaped  
> bottle, I recently researched a local olive bottling operation in 
> San Diego  
> County that began in 1899. The year before, a woman in San 
> Francisco developed  
> an olive pickling process and personally traveled up to the town 
> where the  
> Klondike gold miners began their trip to market her olives. She 
> made a  fortune 
> and traveled the nation lecturing on how to pickle olives. Our 
> local  man, 
> Frank Gifford, learned the technique from her and turned his olive 
> oil  industry 
> into one of the largest canned olive industries in southern 
> California.  His 
> family sold the business in 1961. But my point here is the neck of 
> the early  
> olive bottles resembled Jacob's bottle.
> 
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
> 
> 
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