Lessons Learned

[bottlebugs]

FeeBay is rife with deception. Which is fake and which is original, NOS?
Bonus question...which bottle is from 1943?

A)

B)

C)

D)

 

[Step Back In Time]

Wow I'm not even sure!

 

[bottlebugs]

ANSWER....

A) is an original 1943 bottle with an original 1943 label intact. The
neck label is a 1943 NOS label.

B) is a coloured cropped photo of an original, made on an inkjet
printer glued on a 1954 ACL bottle (it barely fooled my wife, who could tell by my smirk, that it was a scramble bottle)

 

[Canadacan]

I'm not sure I would have guessed. I could possibly tell if the resolution is high enough. but other than that I need it in hand and the use of my 30X40 loupe. These particular labels can be tough to spot as there is no registration marks.
I did a post years back on spotting printed labels, I also did copy a couple on my inkjet printer, no doubt a high end printer would do better but it's still detectable 100%.
Here's the link... https://www.antique-bottles.net/threads/reproduction-labels-fakes.689007/

 

[bottlebugs]

Thanks I read this early on...I rushed to check that
my Canadian Pepsi's weren't fake...all good!
This is even worse...for absolutely no cost
whatsoever, I was able to capture images
of real labels and print them on a dud bottle.
If I wanted, I could have put high res. images
on the FeeBay. They would be blow ups of the
actual photo images scratched off the site.

 

[bottlebugs]

btw you can defeat the ink smear test by applying
a quick spritz of acrylic over the ink...undetectable!

 

[Canadacan]

btw you can defeat the ink smear test by applying
a quick spritz of acrylic over the ink...undetectable!

True...but nothing will get past a 30X40 loupe, especially if it has registration marks, like on the older double dot Pepsi labels.