The Gallagher Stores were a small chain of grocery stores that operated for a short time in New York City from 1902 until their closure in 1906. This is one of their tooled-lip, strap-sided, slug plate-embossed alcohol flasks.
I've had this bottle for a few years and dating it has been like a puzzle to me. Because the label says the whiskey was made 1912. It was medicinal, so by the time it aged, Prohibition would have started. But the bottle itself appears much older than 1912. The seams fade out before the...