Tips on Identifying marks on Gordon's Gin Bottle

Bottleinc

Thought this might be useful to some

Chris

Thanks for posting this - a thorough research project!

It would be really great to cite the source of your info - I do recognize some of the content from a few sites. Providing links to those sites will help others.

Bottleinc

Sure, most of the comparisons I used to compare to my 1941 1/2 pint in the above came from the following site https://sha.org/bottle/index.htm

The others was by googling the following - bottle Rectifiers list, User Permit lists & Industry liquor bottle plant numbers

In my research, I did not want to solely rely on the Rectifier numbers to Identify the age of the bottle, I wanted to know, what it was of the 41's shape, Mold features, including such as the feature of the kork-N-Seal that was supporting the data,

Bottleinc

Different bottles, that are older than the 41's can lead to other features to be questioned, are a color,Embossing as Slug Plating aka plate mold ,tooling including molding processes of the time periods etc.....

Bottleinc

I think there is a story, that is being told in every bottle a forgotten era an array of different characters in that story that inevitably become front and center as in the owners of the distilleries along with the workers of those distilleries,

Bottleinc

I must not forget the artist that help designed the different array of bottles that have been made

Bottleinc

As for me, in the end scheme of it all I just like how looks in the light, I can appreciate the simplicity of whittled amber, smokey clear or green bottle in natural daylight,