O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1916

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O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1916

Unread postby tneedham » Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:55 pm

Just seeing if anyone would have any additional information on this bottle of bourbon I've recently obtained. It is O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey bottled for The Geo. T. Stagg Company. Made in the spring of 1916 and bottled in the spring of 1926. Thank you all :)

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Re: O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1916

Unread postby Squire » Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:29 pm

What would you like to know? First impression is Prohibition era whisky bottled from Schenley stock at a consolidation warehouse. It could have been made at the Stagg distillery or another one. Do you plan to drink it?
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Re: O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1916

Unread postby tneedham » Fri Feb 07, 2014 2:15 pm

It's interesting that being bottled in 1926 it is not labeled as medicinal as that was the middle of prohibition. It says re-bottled for the Geo. T Stagg company, most likely re-bottled after the repeal in 1933? I'm just trying to make sense of it's history. I don't plan on drinking it though. I reached out to the CEO of Buffalo Trace and this is what he said:

Some thoughts:
- Whiskey appears to have been distilled by us

- Schenley did not acquire our distillery until 1929, so the face label is at odds with the strip stamp date

- The glass bottle is lovely

- The star on the neck would appear to be from a much later period (1950s)
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Re: O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1916

Unread postby Squire » Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:45 pm

Bottled then, labeled later?
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Re: O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1916

Unread postby tneedham » Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:55 pm

What kind of value would you guys place on this bottle?
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Re: O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1916

Unread postby Bourbon Joe » Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:20 pm

Hard to say. Is it a pint?
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Re: O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1916

Unread postby tneedham » Thu Jul 17, 2014 5:28 pm

Sorry for abandoning this post but yes it is a pint.
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Re: O.F.C. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 1916

Unread postby Goldie » Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:36 am

Old fired copper. They used copper stills then.
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