Whisky bottle id help

gentleone444 · Mar 27, 2018

Anyone ID this for me? Thanks!

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TimG · Mar 27, 2018

Four Roses bourbon from the 40's or 50's.

gentleone444 · Mar 27, 2018

TimG said:
Four Roses bourbon from the 40's or 50's.

Thanks!

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DavidW · Mar 30, 2018

In additional to what was posted about this being a Four Roses whiskey............ the bottle was made by Owens-Illinois Glass Company (the diamond/oval/I logo (to the right) was used from 1929 to the mid-1950s). The first pair of numbers (55 or 56) is a "Liquor bottle permit number". You can find a list of those numbers on the web. The second pair of numbers (51 or 57??) is the year date code (when the bottle was made). I can't read the last number as it shows very sloppy re-tooling of the mold.

Those liquor bottles usually have a "D number", which is a "distiller code number" like D-11 or D-126 or whatever.......it identified the actual distiller of the liquor in the bottle. The "7" is a mold number. There would have been a set of identical molds (or called a "mold cavity") installed on a machine, each was numbered, and this bottle was made from the "7" mold.

gentleone444 · Apr 17, 2018

DavidW said:
In additional to what was posted about this being a Four Roses whiskey............ the bottle was made by Owens-Illinois Glass Company (the diamond/oval/I logo (to the right) was used from 1929 to the mid-1950s). The first pair of numbers (55 or 56) is a "Liquor bottle permit number". You can find a list of those numbers on the web. The second pair of numbers (51 or 57??) is the year date code (when the bottle was made). I can't read the last number as it shows very sloppy re-tooling of the mold.

Those liquor bottles usually have a "D number", which is a "distiller code number" like D-11 or D-126 or whatever.......it identified the actual distiller of the liquor in the bottle. The "7" is a mold number. There would have been a set of identical molds (or called a "mold cavity") installed on a machine, each was numbered, and this bottle was made from the "7" mold.

Thanks for the awesome info!

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