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_W0QQitemZ320162770578QQihZ011QQcategoryZ893QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem


----- 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/photos/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.html
>