Posted 12 years ago
ahanshew21
(11 items)
My father dug this in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in the 60-70s.
Behind a brick Cival War Era House.
It's currently the only known example,
"Old Taylor Bourbon was named in honor of Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr. who lived from 1830-1923. Taylor was one of Kentucky’s original Bourbon aristocrats and was called the “father of the modern bourbon industry.” He was an industry leader who greatly advanced the quality of Kentucky Bourbon and safeguarded the Bourbon label from bogus producers. Taylor started and owned seven different distilleries throughout his career, the most successful being the O.F.C. and Carlisle distilleries, the forerunners of today’s Buffalo Trace Distillery.
In 1894, E. H. Taylor, Jr., and his sons, J.S. and Kenner, organized a corporation under the name of “E. H. Taylor, Jr. & Sons”. Soon thereafter their corporation acquired the distillery plant and all other assets of their former partnership and resumed the manufacture and sale of whiskey under the brands “Taylor” and “Old Taylor”. It appears that after 1910 the single word “Taylor” was seldom, if ever, used as the brand name, but thereafter the words “Old Taylor” and the script signature of the corporation “E. H. Taylor, Jr. & Sons” appeared conspicuously upon all labels and in all the advertising matter of the corporation."
check out the article on it here, at PRG's Blog, Thanks Ferdinand
http://www.peachridgeglass.com/2012/12/a-question-regarding-an-old-taylor-find/
Still would love to know if anyone out there has seen another like this or know anything about it besides the information that was provided by Ferdinand Meyer of Peach Ridge Glass
Hi,,Ive got a bottle crock just like yours with no cracks or chips.Im sorry to say that mine the handle is gone!There is another just like ours that's on ebay and hes asking $5000 for his! I know minesnot worth that much but still mine be pretty good if there is only 3 of them!!
Yeah these are really not worth that much
Im keeping an eye on the one on ebay to see if it sells !!