Scale would be nice.  I recall horseradish sauce coming in similar bottles
30 years ago or so, but that would not make sense if there are a lot of
them, unless they had a hankering for the stuff.

Condiments of all sorts came in such wide-mouthed bottles so the contents
could be spooned out or because it was so thick.  It isn't the right shape
for honey, which would be more squat.

         Dan W.


At 01:32 PM 6/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Below is the link to two photographs of a bottle which I am posting at the
>request of Professor Bob Schuyler.  We hope someone can help us identify it.
>
>The bottle is approximately four inches tall, with a rusted metal top, and
>remnants of paper labels at the neck and side.  These bottles are fairly
>common at the site and seem to cover some time span as there are some
>earlier ones with Owens scars, bubbles, etc. which do not appear in the
>later examples. The context is a 20th century household.
>
>http://distefan.tripod.com/anthropology247/
>
>Thank you for any and all suggestions.
>
>Dawn Di Stefano
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