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Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whiskey(?) - 4/15/2007 7:12:07 PM    HunterGatherer   Posts: 103 Joined: 12/21/2006 Status: offline I love the picture on this one, but I don't know anything about it. Picked up from redneckest antique shop ever. Whose picture is this? I have a feeling it is an ex-President, but I can't tell. Can I get a brand and possibly as value on this one? Thanks, Isaac Post #: 1

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/15/2007 7:12:50 PM    HunterGatherer   Posts: 103 Joined: 12/21/2006 Status: offline Both sides are like this. Bottom View soon. (in reply to HunterGatherer) Post #: 2

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/15/2007 7:17:07 PM    HunterGatherer   Posts: 103 Joined: 12/21/2006 Status: offline (in reply to HunterGatherer) Post #: 3

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/15/2007 7:19:21 PM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1399 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline Looks like FDR to me , but I am probably all wet.    K.B. (in reply to HunterGatherer) Post #: 4

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/15/2007 7:37:15 PM    Bottleboy4419   Posts: 85 Joined: 10/7/2006 Status: offline i have that same exact bottle i have no info on it tho ethier _____________________________ Where do you dig for bottles in the Maryland area? (in reply to HunterGatherer) Post #: 5

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/15/2007 7:42:16 PM    HunterGatherer   Posts: 103 Joined: 12/21/2006 Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: Bottleboy4419 i have that same exact bottle i have no info on it tho ethier Very pretty regardless, eh? Its goin on display as soon as I get it a bit cleaner. (in reply to Bottleboy4419) Post #: 6

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/15/2007 7:59:09 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9804 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: offline I'd say Teddy Roosevelt for sure (bully hill and all that) (in reply to HunterGatherer) Post #: 7

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/15/2007 8:45:25 PM    hj   Posts: 190 Joined: 5/14/2006 From: Western Pa. Status: offline Isaac, It has taken nearly a year on this site before I could answer a question instead of ask one. I think the gentleman on the bottle is Harry Wilken. I found a screwtop bottle (with cap) last year with the same design. I went and pulled it out and the name is embossed across the bottom of the back. An ebay link http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Whiskey-Bottle-William-Wilken-Hilken-Cork-Top_W0QQitemZ150111304336QQihZ005QQcategoryZ563QQcmdZViewItem HH, HJ (in reply to HunterGatherer) Post #: 8

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/15/2007 9:04:55 PM    HunterGatherer   Posts: 103 Joined: 12/21/2006 Status: offline Thanks HJ, I didn't take a picture of the heel of the bottle because its too hard to read, but it is indeed embossed with several names, one of which looks like Harry E. Wilken, Jr. Actually, now that I know it says Wilken, the other names which follow Harry are: Harry Wilken, Sr. William T.(?) Wilken All of them appear to be in script, and whats more the script differs from name to name. I presume that this was based on actual signatures, which makes them that much cooler. I didn't think about connecting that with the face, maybe I should have. Brand was, apparently, The Wilken Family Blended Whiskey. Thanks again HJ Isaac (in reply to hj) Post #: 9

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/27/2007 5:50:57 PM    muddyfingers   Posts: 148 Joined: 9/23/2006 From: Tallahassee,Fl and Fort Wayne,In just depends Status: offline That bottle is nice, but not quite as nice as the bludwine behind it in the first photo. Do you have any info on it, it's purty!                                                                                 Willy (in reply to HunterGatherer) Post #: 10

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/30/2007 8:00:51 AM    towhead Posts: 2689 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Yes, yes, yes....Wilkin it is, I have the same bottle....Julie (in reply to muddyfingers) Post #: 11

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/11/2010 6:20:12 PM    Nickevlau   Posts: 191 Joined: 4/11/2010 From: Minneapolis, MN Status: offline Thanks for the post,  I found a few of these along a river today.  Made it real easy to learn about.  Thanks again. (in reply to towhead) Post #: 12

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 4/12/2010 9:55:08 AM    mr.fred Posts: 2367 Joined: 4/11/2009 Status: offline I say Harry S.Truman _____________________________ Ah! Yesterday when i was young!!. (in reply to Nickevlau) Post #: 13

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 1/13/2011 4:45:44 PM    ironmountain   Posts: 844 Joined: 10/17/2010 From: Iron Mountain, MI Status: offline not to necro another old thread..but it is Wilkens...here's what the bottle looks like with the labels: Attachment (1) (in reply to mr.fred) Post #: 14

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 1/13/2011 4:46:07 PM    ironmountain   Posts: 844 Joined: 10/17/2010 From: Iron Mountain, MI Status: offline back Attachment (1) (in reply to ironmountain) Post #: 15

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 1/13/2011 4:47:09 PM    ironmountain   Posts: 844 Joined: 10/17/2010 From: Iron Mountain, MI Status: offline label Attachment (1) < Message edited by ironmountain -- 1/13/2011 4:48:04 PM > (in reply to ironmountain) Post #: 16

RE: Help me put a name with the face - Federal Law, whi... - 1/13/2011 5:29:57 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12301 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online He does look like Harry Truman, but I believe we can consider this case solved now.. (in reply to ironmountain) Post #: 17

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