Fiddle shaped bottle

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I have come across a fiddle shaped bottle that I'd like to find out more info on....The bottle is brown and the papers are pretty hard to read but I was able to get the following info off of it....
Bards Town
Kentucky Straight
Bourbon Whiskey Trademark
Bardstown Distillery
Bourbon Springs, Nelson County, Kentucky
DES. PAT. 107353
D202 64-8

If anyone has any info on this type of bottle or can give me the name of someone who might, I'd really appreciate it !!!!

Thanks !!!
Sandi

[cowdery]

Perhaps Mike Veach will reply or you can write to him (bourbonv) directly via the "private message" function of this board. He is associated with the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History in Bardstown, KY, and they have one of those fiddle bottles in their possession.

--Chuck Cowdery (http://cowdery.home.netcom.com)

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The Oscar Getz Museum has several of these bottles. They were bottled by the Willet Distillery and if you call either Flaget Nalley or Mary Hite at the museum they can give you more details on the history of the distillery and the bottle. The number is (502)348-2999.
Mike Veach

[kitzg]

I found one of these as a half pint (also empty) and bought it. Mine (and I assume it is the same) is Old Fiddle brand blended whiskey, Bardstown Distillery. 5 yrs old. The label on back makes reference to "this fiddle bottle has been designed in honor of the immortal bard, Stephen Foster, who composed 'My old Kentucky Home' at Bardstown 1852" Gee, I get misty when I'm at Churchill Downs and they play that song...

Anyway, I can't tell the age of the bottle but if the engraving 65-52 on the bottom of the bottle means what I think it does, that would be 1965. But then, there also is a 7-0-U2 so maybe it's a 1970 but I doubt it, having worked with packaging for much of my life.

Hope that helps you.

Greg