Wanted! (alive not dead)

A friend of mine is looking to purchase a scarce western tool top fifth.

It is embossed, Copper Distilled / Cedar Valley / Ky Bourbon /  Crane Hastings & Co. / Sole Agents / San Francisco . 

It is the bottle on the right in the photo~

 

 

The bottle supposedly dates ca. 1890 - 1895. I strongly doubt that this dating is correct. Instead, I'd suggest that it was blown in 1894 or 1895, after Crane Hastings & Co. relocated to their new address at 321 Commercial SF and before Arthur Crane sold out to CW Craig in late 1895. 

 

Feel free to reach out if you have an example that you'd like to move along. My email is at the top of the page.

 

Thanks! 

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