Try outlining on  a digital photo.

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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
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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:
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>> -------- 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]
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>> 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
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>> Robert L. Schuyler
>> University of Pennsylvania Museum
>> 3260 South Street
>> Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
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>> 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

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