#389 O.F.C. One Pint Vintage/Antique RESTORED Prohibition Era Bottle No Refunds!

Description: #389 O.F.C. OFC 1-Pint Vintage / Antique Prohibition Era Restored Bottle. MUST READ ALL BEFORE BUYING!!! IF PURCHASED, I WILL MESSAGE YOU REMINDING YOU OF WHAT YOU ARE PURCHASING AND SCREENSHOTTING YOUR RESPONSE. Up for sale! Restored O.F.C. (OFC Old Fashioned Copper) One Full Pint Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey bottle from the prohibition era. Only one other found on the internet sold at auction for 4,850 pounds (or about $6,344 U.S. Dollars) with original contents. This particular original glass OFC bottle has a reproduction front and back label, a reproduction Schenley "Mark Of Merit" seal, a reproduction Albert Blanton tax strip, a reproduction KS "Over 100 Proof" tax stamp, and an original OFC screw top. This bottle is empty except for a desiccant packet, but you can fill it with tea to approximate the color of whiskey. Purchaser will also receive free label replacement (for as long as I still own the means of making labels) in the event that one becomes torn or faded or if the ink runs from getting wet. Measurements below and a very important alert below that. Please read all before buying.History added above in pictures via another two websites that explain more about the significance of this bottle. This bottle was produced in the Frankfort Distillery before it became the Buffalo Trace Distillery! The M-164-A indicates that it was indeed used as a medicinal spirit at one time.#389 O.F.C., Fairmount Glass Works, D-9, M-164-A. Screw top – 27mm. 7-7/8” x 4” x 1-7/8”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. 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. This particular bottle has spent six days in a tumbler. 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 two years to the tune of five 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. I am PROUD to say that my work is featured in two museums, one upcoming Hollywood TV show, an upcoming movie, a Broadway play, and multiple personal collections and work offices, so if these entities can recognize the effort I have put into these restorations, I ask that you do also. Thank you. 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. Normally I offer bottle replacement in the event that you receive a broken bottle, but this OFC bottle will have to be a different case, mostly because I simply don't have a replacement bottle. Shipping will have to include insurance on the buyer's part (already calculated in the shipping amount), and I will ship the bottle with way more packaging material than normal, with pictures of the unbroken bottle and the delicate packaging being taken along the way. Several people are asking about how I arrived at my shipping total. I used eBay's own numbers when calculating the amount. I chose UPS 3-Day select so that you get your bottle in a timely manner, and their price range for the states I have specified allowing delivery to is $34.41 - $97.73 and I can prove this with a screenshot pic if you ask for one. Then I calculated the UPS insurance amount above the one hundred dollars that is already included. I added just a few more bucks so that I can purchase additional packaging material to further safeguard the item and viola! ~$110.00 in shipping to get an insured piece of history anywhere in the lower 48 states expeditiously.

Price: 2299 USD

Location: Leavenworth, Kansas

End Time: 2024-10-06T22:17:52.000Z

Shipping Cost: 60 USD