Black Cat Shoe Dressing label

[embe]

How do some of these labels hold up after all the years. Pretty sure it isn't ACL but legible. Was unpacking a few bottles today for my display shelf I'm working on, and this is one of 3 that still hand some type of label. The other two are obviously paper but this looked a bit different.

 

[hemihampton]

Looks like well worn Paper Label to me, I've found some 100+ year old Beer Bottles with labels but they were more like a ghost image so thin. LEON.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Paper can hold up really well in the right conditions. I know some diggers have even found legible newspapers from over a century ago, and I've seen labels in even better condition than yours come out of the ground. Modern landfills are sealed so well that paper doesn't really decompose at all, you could dig one up from 50 years ago and still leaf through all the intact paper. Dumps from 100 years ago didn't achieve anywhere near that level of preservation, but you can sometimes get a very diminished version of the same effect occurring.