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Rare vintage/antique OFC bourbon bottle, ALL ORIGINAL. This pint bottle features a classic liquor design and is a true collector's item. The bottle is in excellent condition with no cracks or chips. Don't miss out on owning a piece of American history.
Old Fashioned Copper distilled for the Geo.T.Stagg Company by Albert B. Blanton.
The date of Fall 1917 is still visible on the BIB tax strip.
O.F.C. – or Old-Fashioned Copper – was the original name of the distillery founded by Col. E. H. Taylor Jr. in 1870, located in Frankfort, Kentucky on the site of an even older distillery. He soon lost control of it to an investor named George T. Stagg, after whom the distillery was later renamed. Eventually both George T. Stagg and O.F.C. would become names of whiskeys distilled at the site. During Prohibition the distillery was sold to the Schenley company, which had a license to continue to sell – though not distill – whiskey for medicinal purposes. This bottle, distilled in 1917 bears not only the name of the distillery but its plant manager, Albert B. Blanton – a curious but not uncommon practice during Prohibition.
This is a bottle that was likely originally packaged as a medicinal pint, but later was rebottled in regular bourbon garb. The giveaway is the do not refill warning on the glass, which didn’t begin until after prohibition.
