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| Caspers Whiskey Bottle. |
This is one of my favorite bottle finds. It is the kind of bottle that you can imagine seeing in a Western bar scene, but it was actually found on the Treasure Coast. In very nice condition, it is even more attractive because of the purpling.
If you look back at some of your older finds, you might be able to find more information than you were originally able to find. That is the case with this bottle.
Like many purchases these days, this whiskey was actually sold mail order.
At about the time of the Civil War (1860s), a man named John L. Casper (in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) was working hard to catch up with a man named Lewis Hayner of (Troy, Ohio) in a race to become the country’s biggest manufacturer, and mail order seller of whiskey...Casper’s (John L. Casper, the founder's grandson) merchandising skills extended to the containers he used for his whiskey. Of particular note were attractive fluted-top cobalt and clear glass bottles, both types featured the famous slogan, “CASPER’S WHISKEY MADE IN NORTH CAROLINA BY HONEST NORTH CAROLINA PEOPLE.”...
By 1913 the entire mail order whiskey business was finished. Over a Presidential veto Congress passed the Webb-Kenyon Act that forbid the transportation of alcoholic beverages into “Dry Areas.” The postman no longer could bring the booze. Although National Prohibition did not follow until seven years later, in 1920, John Casper’s high-flying career went into a tailspin...Here is the link for much more about Casper's Whiskey.
CASPERS WHISKEY Final DRAFT.article
I had an older post on the bottle, which was published before I had all the information. Here is that link.
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"The Porcelain Wreck is the first wreck we have found that demonstrates the breadth of interregional commercial activity in Northern Europe during the 18th century," says Kvalø. "We will gain an intimate insight into what trade systems were like in 18th-century Northern Europe."
When Kvalø first saw the footage from the seabed, it was the glass components of the chandeliers that stood out.
"They are extraordinary, truly high-status European craftsmanship,"...
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... over 40 years ago, in 1983–4, an unassuming glass flask dated to the late 2nd century AD was excavated in York, England. The significance of the container would not be noted until decades later, when Dr. Hillary Cool, of the Barbican Research Associates, was tidying up her archive and noted that the glass flask had an uncanny resemblance to an Egyptian kohl bottle, making it the first and only kohl bottle found in Roman Britain to date...Here is the link for more about that.
A kohl bottle from York may hint at an ancient Egyptian in Roman Britain
This is another example of how after holding onto a find for a long time you can finally discover something that transforms your understanding of what it is.
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