So, the first item on my list of things to post about is my Crown Royal Bottle. For something that I asumed would be easy to look up, it has proven to be extremely elusive. Also, a lot of this is written from memory because the bottle in question is buried in my basement at the moment.
My first stop was the official Crown site to see if they had any information on historical bottles. It was a dead end. A Google image search showed many, many styles of bottles but nothing like this.
The label reads: Seagram's Crown Royal whiskies bottle
2 d-126 & a trademark
My next try was looking up the makers mark on the bottom of the bottle. Some how I eventually searched Google for 'bottle makers mark' which sent me to this site http://www.myinsulators.com/glass-factories/bottlemarks.html This was my first real lead for hunting down the history of this bottle.
Following the winding trail the company that made this particular bottle was known for making milk bottles. there was a very short time when bottle makers were forced to have that federal law quote on them because of prohibition. However I could not find more information beyond that.
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