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Hamilton Gray & Co. Blue Lick Water

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Bottles & Insulators Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Hamilton Gray & Co. Blue Lick Water
SOLD
1,400.00USDto J*****1+ buyer's premium (210.00)
This item SOLD at 2016 Aug 07 @ 09:28UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Hamilton Gray & Co. Proprietors, Maysville, Kentucky. Blue Lick Water, with picture of deer. Amber, double roll applied top. Minor whittle, a few nice bubbles; mint with the exception of a few minor scratches. A choice rare bottle. Not found in Brown’s Auction Price Reports. Extremely rare, no sales records easily located. On the obverse, underneath “Hamilton Gray”, is an area with slugged out letters. The slugged out letters appear to read “USA Hospital Dept.”, and in fact, this bottle was probably poured in the USA Hospital Dept. mold. 9 1/2 inches tall. Blue Lick Springs is located between Ellisville and Fairview Kentucky on Highway 68. It is the site of a Revolutionary War battle in 1782 that included Daniel Boone, and is now a state park. The springs are listed in Bell, A. N.; Climatology and Mineral Waters of the US; 1885, p185 and Walton’s The Mineral Springs of the US and Canada, 1874, pp191-2. Walton noted that the waters were sold bottled from the Upper Blue Lick Springs “bottled and barreled water is sold largely in all of the leading cities of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.” A paper labeled amber Blue Lick Springs bottle is known from approximately 1900. City: Maysville State: Kentucky Inventory Number: 38917