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Old 10-11-2011, 08:37 PM   #24
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Default Dating old bottles and Prohibition

The following will help you date a bottle; I learned a long time ago that bottles bearing an inscription relating to the re-filling of a bottle ("Federal Law Forbids Sale or Reuse of This Bottle") dates it as being made after 1932-one year after Prohibition ended; The Volstead Act created Prohibition and ran from 1920-1932.

If I'm not mistaken it only applied to whiskey bottles.

http://www.bottlebooks.com/federal_law_prohibits_.htm

If you want to see an interesting documentary catch Ken Burns' PBS program "Prohibition"-all 3 parts. It just came out. Really well done.
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