ULYSSES S. GRANT and the KELLY'S and THE OLD CABIN BITTERS

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I love the Booz bottles but I have got to hand it to the mold maker on these exquisite detail in the logs.I give the nod to the Booz bottle on the shingled roof though.Imagine if the Old Cabin Bottles had the shingled roof like the Booz bottle,and the other way around imagine the Booz bottle with log detail like the Old Cabin Bottles.Later today or tommorrow I will add more detail about how I know that the Old Cabin Bitters and the Kellys Bitters used two completely different molds in their manufacture.It has been suggested that the use of a slug plate switch was all that was needed to go from the Kellys to the Old Cabin.There are at least 15 differences between the bottles some glaring others minute.

 

[Steve/sewell]

I have posted this same bottle in the New to my collection area of the forum earlier today.Ijust received my latest Log cabin bitters bottle.This on is in a rare color as it is mostly a golden Olive yellow amber color, with light amber and a little orange amber mixed into the areas that are usually thicker on the bottle.This bottle is 90 percent of the time in various shades of darker amber.This bottle has one semi major area of damage which is an inch and a half inch long but very thin and hardly noticeable crack on the lower roof area.An in the making V shaped area very tiny on the lip and some hazing and clouding slightly on the inside.There are also some scratches but that is it. These bottles are rare in any color but are listed as extremely rare in colors other then amber including the color on this bottle.Carlyn and Ring list it as scarce in amber and very rare in the following colors,Yellow,Yellow Olive,Yellow Green, and Deep Olive Green.I have two of these Kellys Old Cabin Bitters now and I think I am going to attempt my first color run in my collection.

 

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