This vintage 60's aqua blue Lord Calvert glass whiskey decanter with a friendship design is a stunning addition to any barware collection. The decanter comes with a stopper and is crafted from high-quality glass, ensuring durability and longevity. The beautiful color adds a pop of vibrancy to any occasion, making it perfect for all occasions.

The bottle was manufactured and filled with whisky by the Owens-Illinois Glass Company in the United States on behalf of a Canadian whiskey distillery company named Lord Calverts of which imported their whiskey to the U.S. for sale.

It was/is one out of a set of four bottles made in commemoration to the founding of the United States of America, of which they all had/have different colors, graphics, and themes: Courage - colors varying between Pink/Purple/or Clear; Liberty so far always Green; Friendship - so far always Blue; and last but not least Horn of Plenty - varying colors between Pink/Yellow/Clear. As "it took courage" "to fight a war in order to gain their liberty from England" "and become friends" "so that they could thrive economically - enabling them to bountifully fill their horns full and over flowing from the fruits of they labor" (being they where no longer being overly taxed on every thing the King of England could come up with) so to speak.

This set of bottles where/are as well post-prohibition liquor bottles, and being as such they had to comply with the laws of the United States government of the times, of which they where to include four things upon the bottom of each and every bottle itself: #1) the bottling manufacturer's License Number; #2) the distilleries License Number, #3) the plant's Permit Number, and #4) a Date Code.

Therefore the numbering on the bottom of these bottles are as such:

At the top is the federal bottling license number [L- __ ] for the making of liquor bottles and bottling liquor within the U.S. At the bottom is the federal distillery license number [D - __ ] for the actual manufacturing of liquor that is to be sold in the U.S., no matter which country it may have been originally produce in. On the left side is the Bottling plants Identification Number [usually a one or two digit number]. And on the right side the two letters standing for the year that it was bottled in. And the "O" with an "I" in it was the bottlers official registered Trade Mark (i.e.: Owens-Illinois) they used between the years 1954-1966.

The "Friendship" bottles have L-9529.

As for the statement "FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS SALE OR RE-USE OF THIS BOTTLE", embossed around the bottom of the bottle, after the prohibition of alcohol was lifted in the United States in 1935 a law was made that all liquor bottles and ceramic jugs made by licensed bottlers from that point on were to have this statement permanently placed some where either embossed or stamped upon the bottles and jugs themselves in an attempt to not only add an extra federal charge to boot-leggers themselves.

By the year 1964, boot-legging was no-longer a rampant issue the law was repealed.

Make this piece of history, the whiskey decanter and lid, a part of your collection.

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