Who Collects Whiskey Bottles? Show Us!

[Harry Pristis]

Who here collects antique whiskey bottles? Show us the some that you're proud to display.

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This is a well-known Chicago whiskey, CHAPIN & GORE. The inside-thread stopper is H. FRANK'S PATENT AUG 1872 (embossed on base of bottle). I am still looking for this stopper for my bottle.

 

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[jgas]

Try these on for size. My only two whiskeys and, well you know the whole story........They will be for sale soon. After I get sick of showing them to everyone and when I get to scared the cat will topple them from the cabinet. Enjoy....jgas

 

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Lot's of talk and interest in the Elk's pride on many bottle forums....

 

[Harry Pristis]

What an excellent pair of ELK'S PRIDE whiskey bottles!

Here's a pontil-scarred, 1850s handled whiskey. This one has no embossing, but some of these handled whiskey bottles were embossed or had applied glass seals.

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Here are some of my Paterson Whiskey's Harry.....

 

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One I'm looking for.....

 

[Harry Pristis]

Nice collection of Paterson whiskey bottles! Local bottles have the little bit of extra interest.

Here are a couple more handled whiskey bottles from the 1850s.

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[Harry Pristis]

Here's a whiskey bottle that I dug in a clearing in an orange grove south of Ocala, Florida. The Carmichael & Son refers to George Carmichael and his son, C. Ed Carmichael of Ocala. Ocala and Marion County remember C. Ed Carmichael as the pioneer developer of Silver Springs.

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C. Ed Carmichael, who began the first real
development of Silver Springs as a tourist attraction, succumbed to an illness
May 22, 1940, at Munroe Memorial Hospital. He was 70 years old.

Back in 1906, when he invested $3,000 to acquire land around the
head of the springs from R.L Anderson, he already was a successful
Ocala businessman. With his father, George, Ed operated a whiskey distillery,
a popular downtown bar, and a grocery store.

In later life, Ed boasted that he borrowed the money to buy Silver Springs, and
he may have, but his tremendous success in the mail-order whiskey business
suggests that it hardly was necessary for him to borrow money.
People came to him for loans.

Eventually he saw the possibilities of Silver Springs for something
other than a cheap avenue for commercial freight traffic and began
building those amenities that helped turn the springs into a major
tourist attraction. Over the years he bought additional land until he
owned most of the property on both sides of Silver River to the
Ocklawaha River.

He built a residence at the side of Silver River, near the head of the
springs, and began farming the on both sides, planting citrus trees
as well as a variety ot popular row crops. He added other farm
buildings until his farm reached proportions that drew statewide
attention.

It may have been a wet-dry election in 1908 in Marion County that
stimulated his interest in developing Silver Springs. He and his father,
George, fought hard to keep whiskey legal, and although they won a
narrow victory, Ed saw the whiskey business was doomed. Other
cities and counties throughout the country were voting dry, and he
knew it was only a matter of time before the relentless 'drys' prevailed
in Marion County.

Late in his career, Ed recalled those years after he bought Silver Springs.
'For five years, I did nothing to improve it,' he said. 'Then, I decided to
make a business of it and create a resort for women and children, -a
place where a man's wife, daughter or sweetheart could go and feel
protected.'

His first enterprise was a daylight sight-seeing boat that would take
groups on excursions on the Silver and Ocklawaha rivers during day-light
hours. At that time the paddle-wheel steamboats were still active,
hauling both freight and passengers from Palatka and points north.

Frank Mathews of Ocala built the boats for him, and they proved popular.
Within a few years, Ed had expanded into the freight business. He
attempted to convince Ocala businessmen he could haul freight cheaper
by water than the railroads, offering them a way to escape oppressive
railroad freight. By the early 1920s, despite his business abilities and
foresight, Ed's freight line had collapsed.

George Carmichael died in December 1915, just before another wet-dry
election. Qualified male voters trooped to the polls, and the next day
the Ocala Daily Star announced, 'Demon Rum Has Been Routed!' Marion
County voted dry by 234 votes. The Carmichael distillery was out of
business. Ed, however, stalled it for another year contesting the
referendum in the courts. He eventually lost, then began devoting all of
his energies to developing Silver Springs.

Adapted from the account by David Cook, an avid Marion County
historian and former associate editor of the Ocala Star-Banner.

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[Harry Pristis]

The earlier form of the South Carolina Dispensary bottles had a palmetto logo. Later, this palmetto was replaced by a SCD monogram.

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[Harry Pristis]

Here's a fairly common whiskey bottle:

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[Harry Pristis]

Here's the reverse of the MOUNT VERNON bottle along with another square whiskey bottle.

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Yes, it is a SQUARE BOTTLE WHISKY.

Note the difference in spelling of British "whisky" versus the American "whiskey." A "munro" is one of a list of the highest points in Scotland; the list was compiled by a man named Munro. Dalwhinnie is a settlement with distillery on the flank of Munro Dalwhinnie. Either that, or the Dalwhinnie distiller's name was Munro. Maybe both.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Now for some Tennessee sippin' whiskey:

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J. W. Kelly owned the "Deep Springs Distillery" in Chattanooga from the late 1880's to around 1915.

 

[808kaz]

HAWAIIAN WHISKEYS FROM THE 50th STATE OF HAWAII:

MACFARLANE & CO HONOLULU (Applied Top).
2-W.C. PEACOCK & CO HONOLULU H.I. WINE & LIQUOR MERCHANTS (2 Applied Tops) one is a red amber.
LOVEJOY & CO. HONOLULU T.H. (Tooled Top)
HOFFSCHLAEGER CO. LTD. HONOLULU (Tooled Top)

 

[sodetraveler]

HAWAIIAN WHISKEYS FROM THE 50th STATE OF HAWAII:

MACFARLANE & CO HONOLULU (Applied Top).
2-W.C. PEACOCK & CO HONOLULU H.I. WINE & LIQUOR MERCHANTS (2 Applied Tops) one is a red amber.
LOVEJOY & CO. HONOLULU T.H. (Tooled Top)
HOFFSCHLAEGER CO. LTD. HONOLULU (Tooled Top)

Sweet!!!

Are those from your collection?

 

[808kaz]

Sodetraveler...Yes it is.

 

[Erdspiegel]

German Whiskey

 

[Harry Pristis]

German Whiskey

I see that this German "whisky" uses the British spelling rather than the American "whiskey." I had never before seen a German whiskey bottle . . . is it a rare one? Thanks for posting it, 'Erdspiegel'.

 

[Erdspiegel]

German Whiskey

I see that this German "whisky" uses the British spelling rather than the American "whiskey." I had never before seen a German whiskey bottle . . . is it a rare one? Thanks for posting it, 'Erdspiegel'.

It's my first & only of that kind.Must date c.1905-1915.
Surely rare.

And I don't know the meaning of the embossed 'ATL.'