Opossum embossed bottle. Any ideas?

[kelseynlutz]

Help! Found this at the antique store the other day and haven’t been able to ID it. Liquor bottle shape, embossed opossum with 6 round dots on the bottom inside of a circle. Seam lines are on a diagonal and the lip looks tooled to me. Any ideas? Thank you!

 

[kelseynlutz]

Does anyone think this needs to be posted in after 1900? I can move it if need be.

 

[Skadman4]

Looks more like a Turkey to me, as in Wild Turkey 101. Not sure of their starting production year but may be another Avenue to its identity.

Sent with smiles Steph

 

[CanadianBottles]

That's the Gordon's Gin logo. It's a wild boar I think. Never seen an unembossed Gordon's before, not sure what the story is there.

 

[yacorie]

That's the Gordon's Gin logo. It's a wild boar I think. Never seen an unembossed Gordon's before, not sure what the story is there.

agree

 

[Skadman4]

agree

I see it now, neat! Thanks

Sent with smiles Steph

 

[kelseynlutz]

Looks more like a Turkey to me, as in Wild Turkey 101. Not sure of their starting production year but may be another Avenue to its identity.

Sent with smiles Steph

That's the Gordon's Gin logo. It's a wild boar I think. Never seen an unembossed Gordon's before, not sure what the story is there.

Thank you so much! Mystery solved

 

[Old Wiltshire]

Hi kelsynlutz,

Just a little bit of further information concerning your bottle.
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Yours appears to be one of the earlier varieties which was replaced by the type depicted in the image below.
The new design was registered in the UK in 1912.

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The advertisement from an edition of the Pacific Wine, Brewing & Spirit Review dated November 30, 1914.
It can be accessed via the following link:

Pacific Wine, Brewing & Spirit Review : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Devoted to viticulture, olive culture, and other productions, manufactures and commerce of the Pacific Coast--Varies

archive.org

It would suggest that the new design had been introduced to the US at sometime between 1912 and 1914

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