The opportunity FINALLY arose for me to purchase a bottle that I have lusted after for close to 25 years. Not wanting to bother with a slightly damaged or repaired example I held out for a sparkling mint specimen of the PMSS whiskey. PMSS stands for Pacific Mail Steamship Co and the bottles were blown in Germany for A.P. Hotaling, whose Company filled the bottles with his liquor to be served in the ships saloons. Heavily whittled, red amber, embossed P.M.S.S. Co/BOTTLED BY/A.P. HOTALING Co/SAN FRANCISCO/CAL.