Dear Hist Arch'rs,

For those of you looking for a puzzle or two to start your weekend off right:

1) Does anyone know, what would be the typical minimum production run for a 19th century custom embossed mold-blown bottle? What would be the tipping point when it would be worthwhile for a product manufacturer to contract with a glass bottle producer for customized embossed bottles with their company name, rather than putting printed paper labels on unembossed (plain) bottles? There would clearly be some investment on the part of the glass bottle producer in making the inset plates with the custom embossing mold; at what level of production would that be cost-effective?

2) On a related note, I'm looking for examples of 19th embossed bottles with bilingual (or even multi-lingual) labelling, from either archaeological or museum contexts.

Thanks in advance everyone!

--Barb

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Barbara L. Voss, Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
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