That is the same one (form) as shown in Zumwalt, pg 191 (that I had told
Jake about in my reply to him).
I knew this bottle was too purple to be 'natural'... it has been
irradiated...  Several eBay sellers are doing this to their bottles...to
make them more appealing/prettier I guess.

Too bad people are still perpetuating the story (myth) that the decline
of manganese use was due to the war in 1914...cutting off supply from
Germany.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: HISTORICAL
>ARCHAEOLOGY
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On Behalf Of Bob Skiles
>Sent: Monday, October 08,
>2007 9:42 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Bottle ID help
>
>A similar, but larger (6
>bulges rather than 4)
>Gulden bottle (attributed
>as
>mustard, but obviously just
>a guess) is now being
>offered on eBay at:
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/Unusual
>-Purple-Six-Band-Gulden-
>Mustard-Jar-c-
>1910_W0QQitemZ320162770578Q
>QihZ011QQcategoryZ893QQrdZ1
>QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZView
>Item
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>-
>From: "jakob crockett"
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, October 07,
>2007 5:37 PM
>Subject: Bottle ID help
>
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I recently recovered a
>bottle from excavations in
>Columbia, SC, but
>> can't seem to identify
>the bottle type beyond
>"likely condiment."
>>
>> Photographs of the bottle
>are available at:
>>
>http://www.flickr.com/photo
>s/14689007@N02/
>>
>> The maker's mark on the
>base of the bottle is
>CHARLES GULDEN / NEW
>> YORK.  I thought, given
>the distinctive shape of
>the bottle, that
>> Gulden (or someone at his
>company) might have
>patented the design.  A
>> search using google's
>patent database yielded
>multiple mustard bottles
>> (as expected), but
>nothing with this shape.
>>
>> The bottle is 5 3/8-
>inches (13.7cm) long, has a
>1-inch (2.5cm) neck
>> dia., the finish is
>tooled, and appears to be a
>cup-bottom mold.
>> Recovery context was a
>trash-pit associated with a
>small lunch-counter
>> on an urban house-lot.
>Feature creation can be
>firmly dated to 1909.
>>
>> Any suggestions or
>references you might have
>would be much appreciated.
>> Thank you,
>> Jake
>>
>> --
>> Jakob Crockett
>>
>> Department of
>Anthropology
>> University of South
>Carolina
>> Hamilton College, Room
>317
>> Columbia, SC 29208
>>
>>
>http://www.cas.sc.edu/anth/
>mann_simons/mann_simons.htm
>l
>>