Antique Vintage Seagrams Lord Calvert Wiskey Bottle 1940\'s for Sale

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Antique Vintage Seagrams Lord Calvert Wiskey Bottle 1940\'s For Sale

$Antique Vintage Seagrams Lord Calvert Wiskey Bottle 1940\'s$
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Antique Vintage Seagrams Lord Calvert Wiskey Bottle 1940\'s:
$45.00

1940\'s Antique Vintage Amber Ball Glass Liquor Bottle (Empty)

This is a vintage Ball liquor bottle which reads\"Federal Law Foroffers Sale or Re-use of this Bottle\" indicating thatit was created between 1935 and 1965.These markings were used directly after prohibition to regulate the saleof legal alcohol.

Embossing also marks \"4/5 pint.\"

Embossing on bottom of bottle reads \"Ball\" and\"D126.\"

Distiller 126 is Seagrams Lord Calvert Whiskey:In 1934, as Seagrams, the Bronfman brothers acquired Maryland Distillers Inc. of Relay, Maryland and immediately set to improving the quality of its whisky. At the time, Maryland Distillers was selling un-aged American spirit, calling it Lord Calvert.

The bottle is in wonderful condition, but missing originalcap. There are a few very faint hairlike scratches on bottle as enhanced in pictures. Color and Embossing very well preserved.

It was found with other bottles dating from the 1920s to 1940s.

History taken from Calvert Canadian Whiskey 750 ML In 1889, Yechiel Bronfman, fleeing anti-Semitic pogroms in Bessarabia, arrived in Canada with his young family in tow. The family made its first Canadian home on the prairies where Bronfman, who had been a thriving tobacco farmer in Bessarabia, hoped to repeat his success as a farmer. He quickly learned, however, that the harsh prairie climate was quite unsuitable for tobacco. After a number of financial setbacks and successes in other ventures, including the liquor trade, the Bronfmans, whose name means liquor man in Yiddish, eventually settled in Montreal.In 1924, prompted by their already considerable success as rectifiers, the younger generation of Bronfmans built their first real distillery in the Montreal suburb of Lasalle. The Lasalle distillery, coupled with a Waterloo, Ontario distillery, called Seagrams, which they purchased in 1928, quickly became the cornerstones of one of the worlds largest distilling empires. But despite the eventual pan-global network of Bronfman-owned distilleries, it was the Seagram name that stuck and remains most firmly associated with Canada.In 1934, as Seagrams, the Bronfman brothers acquired Maryland Distillers Inc. of Relay, Maryland and immediately set to improving the quality of its whisky. At the time, Maryland Distillers was selling un-aged American spirit, calling it Lord Calvert Whiskey. Sam Bronfman was determined to make low-quality, Prohibition-era whisky a thing of the past, so he immediately began adding Canadian whisky to Lord Calvert to improve the flavour, until properly-aged American distillates would become available. In 1939, with supplies of aged American whisky on the rise, blenders at Seagrams Baltimore plant completely re-formulated Lord Calvert as a premium American blend.Over the years that followed, the Calvert label, and the whisky itself, went through numerous iterations and was sold as Lord Calvert, Calvert Special, Calvert Reserve, Calvert Extra, and a 100% Canadian version called Lord Calvert Canadian. There were also numerous variants developed for regional markets. Sorting them all out now is no easy task, but it seems that Calvert Special and Calvert Reserve were introduced as American blends when sufficient aged American whisky became available after Prohibition. Although they were very well received, by the 1960s, drinkers were demanding lighter whiskies, and the bourbon and rye-rich Calvert Reserve had slipped from sales of over two million cases to fewer than 1.2 million cases annually.Calvert chief blender, Russ McLauchlan and Seagrams president Edgar Bronfman decided that rather than reformulate the blend they would simply withdraw it and replace it with another. The result was Calvert Extra, a lighter American blended whisky which soon had sales exceeding 2.3 million cases. It was a gamble that paid off well. Then, in 1964 Bronfman and McLauchlan developed an all-Canadian version called Lord Calvert Canadian. Thanks to stringent labeling laws we can be confident that Lord Calvert Canadian is, and always was the real thing “ real Canadian whisky, all of it aged for a minimum of three years.In 1991, Seagrams sold the Lord Calvert Canadian brand to Jim Beam so Seagrams could shift its focus to its premium brands, including Crown Royal. As a result, Calvert Canadian is now a Beam Global brand, but the whisky in the historic bottle reviewed here was indeed produced at Seagrams Laval distillery more than thirty years ago now, at some time during the late 1970s or early 80s. After being distilled, aged and blended in Laval, the whisky was shipped in bulk to Seagrams plants in the United States where it was bottled and sold by Calvert Distillers. Calvert, you see, was managed then as a separate Seagram brand, with its own sales and distribution organizations.Shipping prices are those reflected by the app. If there is another method which you prefer, I will be happy to oblige.