Topic: pressed decanter with very strange instructions on the bottom - USA?

[flying free]

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

[peejyweejy]

Probably something to with this......

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

[flying free]

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 having never seen similar.
It's a great decanter shape considering it had to be smashed after use    I wouldn't have minded buying my red wine in it.
m

[peejyweejy]

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

[kane_u_pain]

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.

[obscurities]

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

[Andy]

... 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  (Elizabeth Montgomery)
Google is a wonderful thing!
 :24:

[flying free]

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

[obscurities]

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

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

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