Probably dried apricots. They're still "bleaching" them with sulfur.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Farmen [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:32 PM
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> Subject:      Some dates, if you please. . .
>
> Dear list. . .
>
> I'm looking for a date range on the following two artifacts found in a
> collapsed log cabin in interior Alaska.
>
> 1)  A can measuring 3 1/4 inches tall by 5 inches diameter.  All crimped
> seams.  Lithography all around, maker's mark:  "Golden Glow/
> Pasteurized."  I'd wager that this is a butter can, and the lithography
> motifs appear to be 20s or 30s, but I'd like a more definite date.
>
> 2)  A packing crate (nailed to the cabin wall as a shelf) with the
> following marks on a glued paper label:  "Gold Bar/ [illeg.] APRICOTS/
> GRIFFIN & SKELLE[illeg.]/ BLEACHED WITH SULPHUR."
>
> Doesn't bleaching fruit with sulphur sound healthy?  Mmmmmmmm.  Thanks,
> folks!
>
>
> Kris Farmen
> Northern Land Use Research, Inc.
> Fairbanks, Alaska