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Whiskey-Thos. Taylor, Virginia, N. Yellow Whiskey Bottle Fifth [184671]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Bottles & Insulators Start Price:4,000.00 USD Estimated At:8,000.00 - 14,000.00 USD
Whiskey-Thos. Taylor, Virginia, N. Yellow  Whiskey Bottle Fifth [184671]
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A beautiful yellow-amber example of this exceedingly rare and popular western whiskey bottle.
In my Nevada History Through Glass (2012), twenty pages were devoted to discussions about the Taylor bottle.
Taylor, a German by birth, got his start in San Francisco in 1858 during the Gold Rush. In 1863, Taylor was excited and overwhelmed by the huge gold and silver production on the Comstock and opened his own liquor business. The opening coincided with the major production in the Gould & Curry, who opened the largest ore mill in the world that year at the junction of Six and Seven Mile canyons about three miles below Virginia City.
Dating the bottle is difficult. The first successful western glassworks produced the WS Wright soda bottles of Virginia City in December, 1862, thought to be the very first from Pacific Glass Works. Did Thomas Taylor and partner follow in Wright's path and order embossed bottles from Pacific Glass Works in 1863? One indication of age is that there are two sizes of the Taylor bottles, a sixth (rare) and fifth (the regular size of a western whiskey bottle). Both come in colors ranging from grass green to yellow to amber to a rare red-amber.
As an applied top whiskey bottle, it is the only one from Nevada. San Francisco quickly took over with the wholesale whiskey business and dozens of whiskey merchants distributed their whiskey brands all over the West.
This is your rare chance at a great Nevada rarity and one of the all-time most famous of the western whiskey bottles, with tales to tell! [Virginia City] [Nevada] Condition notes: a beautiful yellow-amber, spotless clean. X- "RKF" label on the bottom (Robert Frank), who was a very picky collector. The base shows two shallow annealing lines and some possible remnants from a dirty mold. The bottle is a beauty, fit for the best collections.