City Agency Burlington, VT bottle?

[PlaneDiggerCam]

Any info on this one? Picked it up pretty cheap at an antiques store. Is it a good one?

Thanks,
PlaneDiggerCam

 

[sandchip]

I don't have a clue, but it would be a good one to me. Odd that it's shaped like a medicine or large flavoring, but the "Full Measure" is something more typically found on whiskeys. "City Agency" would make a very cool name for a package store. Maybe one of our great researchers here on ABnet will give us the real story.

 

[treasurekidd]

Really cool bottle! City Liquor Agency perhaps? Here an 1878 report that suggests they seized liquor and resold it, or perhaps controlled the sale of all liquor within city limits??

... Report of City of Burlington, Vermont for the Year Ending June 30 ...

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[PlaneDiggerCam]

I'd agree with both of you it is a pretty intersting bottle! Plus I don't think there are too many whiskeys from VT

 

[saratogadriver]

They show up occasionally. For some reason VT whiskey has never been a big interest area. I'd say these days that's probably around $35 bottle, maybe $40. unless their value has gone up since the last one I saw. They're certainly not common. I've always assumed they were similar to the SC Dispensary bottles, only on a single city wide scale. With the few of them I've seen over the years they couldn't have been active for very long. The form puts it probably 1890 to TOC.

Jim G