http://www.bottlebooks.com/questions/April2003/april_2003_questions.htm

There's an image of what looks to be an identical bottle shown on this 
"bottle diggers blog" site in 2003 ... apparently it's rare enough to stump 
the digger manning this blog, as another digger asked about an indentical 
bottle a couple years earlier (2001), and so far, neither has gotten an 
answer identifying their bottle.


----- 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
>