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LolaInSF

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Hi all! I'd love your help establishing a date and worth for a pair of bottles I recently acquired. By the text on the underside (Distillers Agency Limited / Edinburgh Scotland ) I've determined that they are Whisky bottles, possibly for Highland Nectar, and that they date sometime after 1923 (when the Agency was formed by the Distillers Company LTD).

Since the bottles are identical, I've only attached a photo of one of them. Hoping the pale blue/green color might be a clue as to when they were made. And also hoping you bottle experts can help me determine their worth. Would Prohibition-era whisky bottles be more attractive to a collector than other eras? Is the lack of labels problematic?

Thanks in advance for any info you can share!
 

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In my opinion, the bottles are worth more to a decorator than to a bottle collector. Age, type (decanter) & lack of face / side panel embossing tend to devalue it in bottle collectors eyes. Things of similar appearance are easily acquired in new form. Being non-USA hurts it here in this country.
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Thanks, botlguy! I suspected as much. The front is embossed with a warning that reusing the bottle is illegal, but nothing else.... My husband's grandmother used them as decoration (and quite possibly emptied them herself, from what I gather!).
 

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