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McKenna’s Nelson County Extra Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Bottles & Insulators Start Price:600.00 USD Estimated At:1,200.00 - 2,000.00 USD
McKenna’s Nelson County Extra Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey
SOLD
800.00USD+ (120.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2016 Aug 07 @ 00:24UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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McKenna’s Nelson County Extra Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey, W & K sole agents. Amber applied top whiskey. Four piece mold. This bottle is a choice example. Deep chocolate, sharp features, bright texture, lacking damage. Unarguably, one of the finest known examples. Please inspect; it's a beauty. Thomas number 168. Blank base. Thomas stated that this bottle was at one time as popular as the famous Teakettle Whiskey bottles. One of the reasons would be that it comes in nearly all shades of amber from light yellow to green-amber and chocolate (as is this bottle). Little is known of this company. Not listed in the 1880 Louisville Directory. In the 1880 San Francisco Directory (the 1878, 1887 are similar), there are no specific wholesale liquor distributors with the initials “W & K”. There are three distributors that show the first surname with a “W”, but do not list the partners. These are: Wm. Ward & Co., J. Waterman & C0., and H. Wilhelm & Co. This is one of the rare cases where Thomas had no information and offered no speculation about the merchant history, yet the wide distribution of the bottles indicates a possibly very successful business. More research is needed. City: State: Kentucky Inventory Number: 38924