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Clock face Old Charter bottle - anyone familiar


SpiritedOne

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A friend inherited his father’s liquor stash and this bottle is among the stash. I’ve been attempting to help find info on it but not having much luck. I ran across this site while searching so joined to see if anyone could assist also great site to join, didn’t know it existed so thanks in advance! 

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That bottle and box are glorious!  Can you send pics of the back of both?  Each might contain clues to its provenance.  

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Surfing around I found some old advertising items where the clock and clock face were part of OCs ad campaign theme.  It appears to promote the extended aging of the whiskey, which of course, is typically a good thing.  The hand positions on the clock seem to be connected to the age of the whiskey in the bottle.  For example hands at 6 o’clock would indicated an age statement of 6 years.  7 o’clock ( like on your bottle) would indicate 7 year old whiskey.  Trying to determine when OC advertising included the click face pitch might help.  I’m guessing there is no upc and barcode on it, and is not in metric measurement?
 

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It looks like Old Charter released (like many bourbon brands in the day), decanters for Christmas.  I found this surfing which is very similar to the OC decanter you have.  Perhaps it’s a similar decanter from the same era.

 

FWIW, the  print design on the box you show seems kinda Napolionic, to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Those things Joe mentioned all help date it - no UPC code/barcode, metric or non metric measure (4/5 Quart or Quart).

Also you could look at the bottom of the bottle for numbers.  Sometimes there are two numbers that correspond to the year it was made.  Other times the numbers have to do with the glass mold in the factory, not helpful in dating.

 

I think we are looking at a bottle here from mid 1950s to as late as late 1970s.  

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