On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Daniel Martin <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Try outlining on a digital photo.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert L.
> Schuyler [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:23 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Bottle ID
>
> No because a photo will not really help as the label is so hard to see.
> I hope someone has excavated - or seen an unburied specimen - such a
> bottle with a much more intact label. Another possibility is a period ad
> but so far we have had no luck in that area.
>
> RLS
>
> On 7/13/2010 5:54 PM, Elizabeth Crowell wrote:
> > Do you have a photo?
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Robert L. Schuyler
> > <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: Bottle ID
> >> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:36:58 -0400
> >> From: Robert L. Schuyler<[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> We have a number of clear glass bottles (date ca. WW I) that are
> >> probably olive bottles. Most are 6 3/4" high but with a long neck (1
> >> 1/2' to 2") and they all have Owen's scars, side seams up to the top,
> >> etc. They also have an inset mouth, probably for a paper or cardboard
> >> sealer. They perfectly match olive bottles in period ads for Libby and
> >> other companies.
> >>
> >> Only one, however, has remaining fragments of a label - two parts, one
> >> on the face of the bottle and one around the neck. We can not read the
> >> company but think we can make out in white script the word "OLIVES".
> >> The labels are green with a white dot pattern - four dots make a square
> >> with a fifth dot in its center. This pattern - white dots on a green
> >> background - is repeated across the entire label and also on the label
> >> around the neck of the bottle.
> >>
> >> Can anyone identify this brand of olives. The pattern does not match
> >> Libby or Heinz labels for olive bottles in period ads.
> >>
> >> Bob Schuyler
> >>
> >> --
> >> Robert L. Schuyler
> >> University of Pennsylvania Museum
> >> 3260 South Street
> >> Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
> >>
> >> Tel: (215) 898-6965
> >> Fax: (215) 898-0657
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> --
> Robert L. Schuyler
> University of Pennsylvania Museum
> 3260 South Street
> Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
>
> Tel: (215) 898-6965
> Fax: (215) 898-0657
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