#200 Hiram Walker's London Dry Gin Vintage/Antique Restored Bottle 1/2 Pnt 1937

Description: Up for sale! Restored Hiram Walker's Distilled London Dry Gin bottle from 1937. This particular bottle has a reproduction front and back label, a period (and volume) relevant tax strip and KS tax stamp, and an original Hiram Walker bakelite dug screw top. This bottle is empty, but you can fill it with distilled water to approximate the color of gin. Measurements below and a very important alert below that. Please read all before buying.#200 Hiram Walker Gin, Ball, 1937. D-23. Screw top – 27mm. 6.5” x 2- 3/4” x 1-5/8” Attention! There is no alcohol in any of these bottles. You are not buying antique liquor; you are buying an antique liquor bottle. These are all dug bottles from a bottle dump that dates from the mid 1800’s to about the 1930’s, with the majority of the liquor bottles dating in the 1930’s. If you want proof of the year, see the embossing on the bottom of the bottle and research bottle codes. Most of the bottles from the 1930’s will have a single digit date code to the right of the bottle manufacturer’s maker’s mark. The number to the left of the maker's mark (i.e. 64) is called the bottle permit number, and represents the permit number given to the bottle manufacturer by the government that helps identify both the manufacturer and the particular plant. So a 64 (maker's mark) 6 would represent the Owens Illinois glass plant in Alton, Illinois, with a manufacture year of 1936. At 1940 and beyond, the date code will become two digits starting with 4 for 1940’s. After Prohibition ended (1920-1933), the government mandated that a message “FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS SALE OR RE-USE OF THIS BOTTLE” be embossed onto each liquor bottle, beginning in 1935 all the way through 1964. This embossed message further helps to prove a bottle’s authenticity. Most of these bottles have spent around three days in a tumbler with upwards of three different cutting and polishing compounds in an attempt to restore them to their former beauty. I have also spent many hours attempting to identify their original labels, sourcing pictures from the net, photoshopping them, then printing and applying these custom labels. I have also sourced, shopped and printed period appropriate tax strips and tax stamps, mostly repping the state of Kansas where I’m from. When available, I have included original dug matching screw tops, dug unidentifiable non-matching screw tops, or modern screw tops and cork stoppers. Please see pics and description for what your bottle includes. In a few cases, I have not been able to correctly identify the original label/contents of a bottle (mostly due to the fact that there aren’t complete comprehensive databases out there for all of the distiller codes, rectifier codes, and medicinal codes) and have therefore employed some artistic license to approximate the label. If you happen to know for a fact what a particular bottle held, please pm me, as I do appreciate history and knowledge and will surely add that information to the databases I am compiling. I learned once that an artist shouldn’t sell themselves short because only they know the amount of effort that went into a creation, and because of that, there are no “best offers” on these bottles. I have been researching, cleaning, photoshopping, and sourcing materials for over five months to the tune of three hundred bottles thus far, with more on the horizon. I have purchased tumbling compounds, cork stoppers, screw tops, a new printer, ink, label paper, brushes, acid, and many other supplies just to get these to their current states. I even had to upgrade my computer to support the workload of the photoshopping. So please, do not ask me if you can get a price reduction. If you love a particular bottle, love it for the work I have put into it and the novelty of owning a piece of history. Again, in recap, these are authentic original liquor bottles, mostly from the 1930’s, but with modern reproduction attributes added. There is absolutely no liquor in them. Shipping to the lower 48 U.S. states only. If you happen to receive a broken bottle, please immediately take pictures and send them to me in an eBay message. I will do my best to make it right. Please allow me this before opening any eBay cases against me. I am not in business to lose business so I will ship you a new bottle if it broke during shipment. If I don't have any more of that bottle type, you may select an equally priced and equal volume bottle from the rest of my store, or a refund will be made to you in full.

Price: 37.99 USD

Location: Leavenworth, Kansas

End Time: 2025-01-01T23:20:42.000Z

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