surfaceone
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Happy post birthday Joe, I love a good conspiracy bottle, and that one's a Star! Gulden had some funky shaped bottles. I know the mustard recipe involves horseradish, at least my tastebud memory bank says so. "CHAs. GULDEN / NEW YORK - This is embossed on one side of a bulbous bodied mustard bottle from this famous condiments firm. This bottle was certainly used for mustard; the Gulden brand is still being made today though now packaged (unfortunately) in plastic. It has a wide bore to facilitate extraction of the product, a tooled one-part finish (like most mustards), blown in a cup-bottom mold, and likely has air venting though that is not certain (image off eBay®). From these features it is reasonable to conclude that the bottle dates somewhere between the late 1880s to early 1910s. Similar "mustard" bottles were made by and listed in the 1894 Agnew Co. catalog (Agnew 1894). This specific design for Gulden was first patented by the company in 1875 and variations were used until the late 20th century (Zumwalt 1980). Click 1922 Good Housekeeping advertisement to see an ad for Gulden's mustard. Click screw thread finish Gulden's to see a bottle like that in the 1922 advertisement (apologies for the poor quality image from eBay®)." Thanks Bill. I haven't found any proof that Gulden made a straight Horseradish. "Gulden opened his own mustard company in 1862. He chose Elizabeth Street in New York for his shop, near South Street Seaport, where he could easily obtain the mustard seeds and spices necessary to mix with vintage vinegars. By 1883, Gulden's product line included 30 mustard varieties and other products, including olives, capers, cottonseed oil, catsup, and Warwickshire sauce. That year, he moved down the street into a six-story building. Drawing from his earlier experience as an engraver, Charles Gulden once asked his brother: "Do you think it would help if we were to attach a spoon to each bottle of No. 6, no extra charge?" Soon, the Guldens were attaching fine, imported spoons to each bottle." From wiki-gulden. But I bet he did.
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