The Jack Daniel's back bar bottles
The Jack Daniel's back bar bottles
The oldest once are the Centennial bottle (1896), Gold Medal (1904) and the Maxwell house (1907). From the Gold Medal and the Maxwell they made a replica in the 70-ties and 90-ties and from the Centennial they have made three different replica's.
This decanter was designed by Mr. Jack Daniels to celebrate his Gold Medal victory in St. Louis at the World fair in 1904. It was one of the first Back bar bottles made for Jack Daniel's.
Compared to the Replica they made in 1971 this one is a little heavier and looks absolute great!
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You can see the gold shine inside the bottle real good, it makes this one a real GEM and an out- standing beauty! I have been told that there are only 3 of these bottles still existing... this is one of them.
(this bottle is a part of the D. Cauwels collection © )
For more information about this 1904 St. Louis World Fair please click here
1896 Centennial bottle
The original Centennial bottle was designed by Jack Daniel's himself in 1896 to commemorate that it was 100 years ago that the state of Tennessee joined the Union as the 16 th state of the US in 1796.
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If you look close you can see that the spirals are all around the bottle, including "under" de print! The "replica's" from the 60-ties and the Bicentennial from 1996 has a flat surface for the print. This original bottle is, just like the original 1904 Gold Medal, a real gem compared to the replica's ...
This Decanter/bottle was produced in the late 50's and early 60's as a display only bottle, this information came from the Head of the Jack Daniel's Research Department: . It never contained any whiskey or had a stopper. It was made to distribute to stores or bars as a display only. He said they only produced maybe a thousand bottles or so and they were extremely rare and hard to find. (Thanks to Maurizio Zavarise, Italie, for sharing this information).
below the bottom of the Siver Centennial bottle
The bottle above is from my own collection and as you can see this one has got a 100 % perfect paint that is gold colored. Estimate value of this "normal" Gold print Centennial bottle is over $ 1250.00 (Okt. 2005) and they are getting more rare every month!
On the following pictures you see a second and a third Centennial bottle, but this time no paint (!) but the words are embossed! Very rare bottle but I don't know if this was a bottle made by the Jack Daniel's Distillery.... The pictures are taken by my friend K.L.Jones, the three bottles you see are from his collection.
I took some extra shots of both bottles, the Centennial and the Bicentennial bottle to show you the differance. On the left is the Centennial bottle.
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Here are close up pictures of all three Centennial bottles:
Notice the small changes of the neckband...
Quart size Statue bottle
Back in the 60-ties they made these window display bottles. They made standard green and black label dummy bottles (check them out on the black and the green label pages) filled with some kind of liquid and some where only made out of amber colored glass. What they also made where these cool bottles such as the Centennial, the Fancy 10 and 12 inch decanters and off course this Statue bottle. Allthough the Centennial bottle was pretty expensive back in the 60-ties ($ 5.52 per bottle) this Statue bottle is a lot more rare. Made in two versions. Both Quart size. One with only the statue printed on it and one with the words Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow Prop. inc.
They used the "Lem Motlow embossed" bottles and are dated between 1953 and 1965.
In my collection I got this book called "Point of purchase catalog" and it is dated 1967. Inside it shows items that can be bought at the distillery for window displays. Here you see the Statue bottle (Along with the Centennial, the dummy bottles and a lot more cool items). I have also incuded the price list of all the stuff...
Here are two pictures of a 1960's white lettered display bottle. Estimated value $850.00 (EBay summer 2007). The bottle (as sold as window display) never had a cap.
Nice Motlow Embosement.
Perfect prints as well
Bottle was made around 1961
Below you see the second design. Also a Lem Motlow embosed bottle. This time no words where printed on the bottle.
This 4/5 quart Jack Daniel bottle below was part of a gift set in the late 50's to mid 60's. The set was in a nice walnut box that contained shotglasses and this enameled bottle. This bottle had a brown colored cap. Don't know if it was ever filled...
(this box/bottle is a part of the D. Cauwels collection © )
Hardware and General store Decanters
The Lynchburg Hardware and General store sold these Back bar bottles / decanters to the public in the 80-ties.
Sold for only $ 12.00 and $ 10.00 INCL. the shipping cost!
Employee only Decanter
This beautiful decanter was given to the employees at the Jack Daniel's distillery in 1996. It was never sold to the public. Very rare decanter
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