Old Republic Whiskey, unknown date and origin

I found this bottle in my Grandmother-in-laws collection, and have been able to find out almost nothing about it.

There aren't any numbers stamped into the glass anywhere. The only stamps into the glass are: 1) "One Quart" on the front, 2) "Old Republic Very Old Whiskey" on the back, and 3) a small line (about 1/2 inch) on the bottom, towards the right edge, pointing out from center. The bottle also appears to be molded, because there's a line in the glass that splits it in half on the right and left sides, and then the bottom also appears to be joined to the two upper halves.

There are numbers stamped on the front of the label (3234) under the "of" in "The acme of perfect distillation", so the very bottom of the label, directly under the slash there.

The capsule is made of something between paper and the foil/metal type stuff used today. And the cork is either driven, or the entire gold section would have to come off right at the lip/transition from white to gold.

For additional background info the Grandmother and Grandfather-in-law ran a high end department store many years ago (she's currently in her 90s). It was started in the late 50s, closed in the early 00s, and sold everything from jelly beans to fine cigars and Waterford crystal. They also had a lot of very high end stuff for the times.

Reddit also helped me find the following potential bits of info about the bottle, not sure what's accurate though, so any help is much appreciated:

1. Might be a pre-prohibition bottle from Republic Distributing Co.(http://tinyurl.com/zn473a4) They appear to have gone by that name. I can't seem to find much of anything outside of the 1914 Cincinnati chamber of commerce report though. u/toomanymore

2. Not even sure it helps but I decided to jump down the rabbit hole myself and the closest I could find was some distillery called Vincent and Pugh (for Brandon Pugh) from a publication from the Office of the Law Times, 1846. http://tinyurl.com/nvcx84n They were quoted as reaching the "acme of distillation." Though, this is just another term for being the best. u/PeterParkerE

3. I'm going to second the thought that it may be pre-prohibition. It's hard to tell until you take off the capsule (which I would wait to do) but it looks like it is probably a driven cork (like a wine bottle), which could point to it possibly being even from the 1890s. u/OldManWhisky

4. This shot glass from pre-pro.com could potentially be related http://www.pre-pro.com/midacore/images/shots/RRP4750.jpg u/Tracefan

Note: I checked pre-pro.com and didn't find much other than there was a distillery by that name in the early 1900s in Cincinnati. Not even sure if it's the same distillery because pre-pro only had one pic of a shot glass which I think used a different typeface. Additionally the bottle I have never actually says "distillery" on it.

At this point, I'm just curious about the bottle and the history of it, so anything you can tell me about it would be super helpful.