This decanter came with a mail-in envelope to order a kit that would convert the empty bottle into a lamp, similar to how some enterprising young bourbonites are making them today.
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photos courtesy of mimmotron
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Photos courtesy of mimmotron.
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Photos courtesy of mimmotron
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The 1969 was the last Holiday Decanter produced by Old Forester. It was designed by industrial art icon Raymond Loewy.
Most of the Old Forester decanters had hollow caps, so if the bottle was inverted the caps would fill with whiskey, as you can see in the last pic here.
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Photos courtesy of Chris Dion
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Photos courtesy of MaltMartin.
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These photos of actual bourbon and rye bottles are an easy way to see how labels and bottles changed over the years, and can assist in finding the year and details of your bottle.
Click on a link to see the photos for that brand.
A.H.
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*Soap Box Alert*
The words “acronym” and “abbreviation” often get used interchangeably these days, but they have different meanings. An abbreviation is a group of letters that represents something longer, like a phrase. An acronym is a word that’s created from an abbreviation, that you can say like a word.
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Josh at StraightBourbon created this fantastic tree back in 2010, and has been keeping it updated since. He’s graciously given me permission to reprint it here for easy reference. Please check out Josh’s great Sipology Blog for tasting notes and thoughts on a number of spirits.
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Welcome to whiskeyid.com, a resource for identifying vintage bottles of bourbon and rye. The site features images of vintage bottles as well as specific info and timelines to assist in dating and verifying authenticity. Content is mostly user-submitted, so if you have bottles that you don’t see here please click the submit link and contribute your photos!
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