Ron,

Yes, I think your point is well taken. This does have the appearance of some 
olive bottles from the same period. Incidentally, although Gulden became 
famous for mustard, the company was a major importer & re-packager of olives 
for the grocery wholesale trade. For an interesting historical account 
written by one of Gulden's early commission agents in the olive trade, see:

http://www.thevanillabeancafe.com/pdf/aejessurun%20news%20letter.pdf

Bob Skiles

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From: "Ron May" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:31 AM
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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