I’m hoping this is pre-prohibition. Any info greatly appreciated

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Found in the intracoastal waterways in FL.
 

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If I had to guess looks more like a 1930's bottle. LEON.
 

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It doesn’t have the “federal law forbids” on it so I’m hoping it’s before that rather than after.
 

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It's a Hiram Walker & Sons whiskey bottle from Canada. I'm not sure how long they were made like this, but I'm guessing it's from the 1930's-40's. I dug one like it in a 1940's dump.

Because it's a Canadian bottle, it's not required to have the Federal warning on it. Some bottles may have the warning if they were made for export to the US.
 

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Awesome. Thank you so much. Going to research them, I didn’t know where to start.
 

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It does say on it One US Pint. So i would think they would have to put the federal warning on it if it was during that time period.
 

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I have found a bottom to a bottle like that in a 1920-1930 bottle dump


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this bottle is made from the mid 1920s to around 1932 or so .the design got a little smaller and the crown diapered . your bottle is Canadian and was bootlegged over the border during probation.
 

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Yep, we find those all the time up here. I'm sure a large number of them were smuggled over the border as well. The fact that it says it's a US pint suggests to me that they had an idea of where it was going to end up as they were producing it. From what I've read the Canadian distilleries made little effort to hide the fact that they were producing liquor to be smuggled into the States. Even during prohibition in Ontario the distilleries were allowed to remain open for the "export market".
 

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I was told years ago that any liquor bottle embossed with federal law forbids sale or reuse of this bottle is after prohibition.
 

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