Bar-codes don't go back before 1983 for store-use, and not before the later '70s for industrial use.
not a lot of paper labels survive even on more modern bottles as few people though to keep them and rest got recycled or tossed in dumps and labels now ruined . so it could still be hard to find even though its not that old
Where did you get the date 1983? I'm pretty certain they were used in stores well before then. Here's an issue of Mad Magazine complaining about being forced to include a UPC in 1978, which I suspect is the year this bottle dates to:Bar-codes don't go back before 1983 for store-use, and not before the later '70s for industrial use.
Huh, that's interesting, 1988 seems so late for a bottle like that. It looks so similar to the ones being used a decade earlier. At that point Domglas would only exist for one more year. Not sure if they kept using the date codes right up until the end or not.