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We start this page with a
pair of jugs from
Scotland, via Peru. My
thanks to member Seva
Trakhtman for sending
this photo. They each
contain 5cl @ 40% of
Glenfiddich 12 year old
single malt scotch. They
are a limited edition of
75 filled by Rutherfod's
for Club de
Coleccionistas Peruanos
de Miniaturas de Licor,
March 2013. These were the Peru Mini Bottle Club show bottles.

Whilst on the subject of Seva, as you can see, he recently got married and,
of course, he had a bottle made. I detect the hand of Jim Crawford in getting
these made as they are from the Bar Cupid Distillery Co., Cincinnati, Ohio!

David Smith

One for the ages

As you all know the United States had this nasty thing called
prohibition which shut down alcohol production. This break has
created a time line with the older bottles being called pre pros. A
large number have survived but many just as glass bottles. The
labelled ones range from absolutely crappy to near mint. Another
thing is that prior to the Pure Food Act of 1906 the labels were
not required to have any information as to content. Anyway, you
can occasionally find a bottle which was stuck in the back of
grandmum's china closet or some other hidden place. Such a
bottle is Eddy's Red Letter Rhode Island Whiskey by The Eddy &
Fisher Co. Providence, R I. I would date
this bottle to about 1900.

E
L
MELOO
M
Until next time . . . . MELOMELO . . . .

(New Zealand voted for prohibition too,
in 1919, but when the votes of the troops
in Europe were counted they tipped the balance in the other
direction - editor)

Working on MBL I thought that I had found the ultimate in politically
incorrect bottles in this old American whiskey from Lionel Distillers. It
appears to say Black Jew! Fortunately, before I could add it to the on-line
database, I found another copy with the full name of the brand, Black
Jewel. If you believe you have found a politically incorrect brand name on
a mini bottle send me a photo. David Smith

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