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Title: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?
Post by: flying free on March 26, 2010, 06:03:24 PM

I had to get this once I read the instructions on the base - very spooky.
It's a dark olivey green and the stopper is hollow and has a strange plastic/nylon ring around it that I cannot remove.  It is 11" without the stopper and 14" with the stopper in
Any ideas on what this might have been used for please?  I guess it's American?

Many thanks
m

Title: Re: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?
Post by: peejyweejy on March 26, 2010, 06:16:32 PM

Probably something to with this......

http://www.bottlebooks.com/federal_law_prohibits_.htm

Title: Re: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?
Post by: flying free on March 26, 2010, 06:24:09 PM

thank you for finding that :) very interesting. 
 I hadn't looked because I found it today and wanted to post it for reference/curiosity sake ;D having never seen similar.
It's a great decanter shape considering it had to be smashed after use  :o  I wouldn't have minded buying my red wine in it.
m

Title: Re: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?
Post by: peejyweejy on March 26, 2010, 06:34:04 PM

It's a nice one! - I wonder if you got sixpence or sixcents back on the bottle.  ;)

Title: Re: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?
Post by: kane_u_pain on March 27, 2010, 01:45:36 AM

Ha ha ha...love it! I could just imagine a glass collector in that period who collected these bottles getting busted! That would be a huge amount of fines to pay or a lengthy prison term. Excellent find flying free and excellent article.

Title: Re: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?
Post by: obscurities on March 27, 2010, 02:49:56 AM

I believe that what you have is a Jim Beam bottle that is of the type that was used in the TV series "I Dream of Jeanie". They were painted differently for different seasons, but it you Google "I Dream of Jeanie Bottle" and scan images, you will find examples in the different paint jobs they used.  She lived in it..... It is an Iconic TV bottle...  and the contents were pretty good also!!!

Craig

Title: Re: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?
Post by: Andy on March 27, 2010, 02:44:32 PM

Quote from: obscurities on March 27, 2010, 02:49:56 AM

... It is an Iconic TV bottle...  and the contents were pretty good also!!!

Craig

Craig,
Is that the jim Beam, or Jeannie (Barbara Eden) i prefered Samantha in Bewitched  ;D (Elizabeth Montgomery)
Google is a wonderful thing!
 :24:

Title: Re: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?
Post by: flying free on March 27, 2010, 03:50:19 PM

Craig, thank you very much :hiclp: that's fantastic and so interesting  :)
How odd I found it here in the UK really.

Thanks again.
m

Title: Re: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?
Post by: obscurities on March 27, 2010, 03:57:24 PM

Quote from: Andy on March 27, 2010, 02:44:32 PM

Is that the jim Beam, or Jeannie (Barbara Eden) i prefered Samantha in Bewitched  ;D (Elizabeth Montgomery)
Google is a wonderful thing!
 :24:

Andy, that would be both!!  Jeanies outfit was better....

Quote from: flying free on March 27, 2010, 03:50:19 PM

How odd I found it here in the UK really.

You rarely see them in the US anymore....  I have not seen one in years.... They show up on ebay once in a while....

Craig