These pictures display some of the oldest whisk(e)y minibottles in my collection
from the left to the right:
Cutty Sark Blended Scots Whisky (from 1937)
White Horse Cellar Blended Scotch Whisky (from 1940)
Anderson Pure Rye Whiskey (from 1892)
Seagram's Pedigree Straight Bourbon Whiskey (from 1927)
Macnair Fine Old Scotch Whisky (from 1937)
So today in 2010 - my oldest one - the Anderson Pure Rye is 118 years old!!!
And the Seagram's Pedigree from Canada was bottled in 1919!
Old Smuggler Blended Scotch Whisky
Sanderson's R.O. Rare Old Blended Scotch Whisky
King George IV Blended Scotch Whisky
Chivas Regal Blended Scotch Whisky
Haig & Haig Five Star Blended Scots Whisky
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Old Whisky Liqueurs - Facts And Pictures
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The pictures below display some old whisk(e)y liqueur minibottles.
All are from 1950 to 1960 and were sold in New York (USA).
Here are some facts about the history of these "liqueurs":
A Japanese collector's friend of mine told me that:
"at a certain period in the US, 'whisk(e)y' was prohibited by law and
many whisk(e)y brands were added with sugar or syrup and named
as 'liqueur' instead of regular whisk(e)y."
Another information I got from a distiller's company in the US is:
"in certain American states during the 1960's, coloured people were
not permitted to purchase less than a bottle of spirits. To get round
this law, sugar was added to the whisk(e)y and that 'liqueur' could
then be purchased legally by coloured people."
As you can see on the pictures below the "original" whisk(e)y labels
and the liqueur labels are nearly identical so the customer
was able to identify his prefered brand without problems.
I have the following eight old whisk(e)y liqueur minibottles in my collection
(the left bottle is the "liqueur", the right one the original whisk(e)y):
Here are the old whisk(e)y liqueur labels in detailed pictures
(the left label always displays the "liqueur" and the right one the label of the original whisk(e)y):
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This is the
George Dickel
Tennesse Liqueur and
Sour Mash Whiskey.
These bottles are called
"Powderhorns".
They were produced
in the late 60's.
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