Need help ID'ing these oooold Liquor bottles

[DomS]

So I was rooting around in a cabinet at my aunt's beach cottage, and I came across some ooold bottles in the back. They have this weird red piece of adhesive tape going up and over the cap that says 'sale stamp' 'us treasury' and 'spirits' on it. (it's been broken since the bottles have been open). My aunt thinks they must be my grandfather's old bottles, but he's been gone for 15 years now, and never drank much for the last couple decades of his life. Some look older than others.

So here they are: The Gordon's and Imperial bottles look to be the oldest. I have no idea how to i.d. them or what that red tag on the caps is for.

Gordon's Distilled London Dry Gin
Gordon's Distilled London Dry Gin (With Red Tape on Cap)
Fleischmann's Distilled Dry Gin
Cheri Suisse
Hiram Walker Peppermind Schnapps
red tag on Hiram Walker bottle
Imperial American Whiskey
Imperial American Whiskey red tag
Arrow Creme De Menthe (may not be old at all)
De Kuyper Peachtree Schnapps (again may not be that old)

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Expiration date.

 

[DomS]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Expiration date.

none on any of them

 

[Baked]

Hard liquor don't expire...

 

[Epic Fail]

Ebay them.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

they look to be from the 70's, as your timeline suggests.

liquor doesn't have an expiration date. unlike wine, it doesn't improve with age, as there is no activity once it's bottled. however, light will degrade the contents. worse still is an opened bottle, an the more air in the bottle, the more quickly it will degrade. once i get down to a quarter bottle, i invite a couple friends over to finish it off. some might say "finish it yourself" but i drink not-too-frequently, so a bottle could sit a while waiting for me to get back to it.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: DomS

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Expiration date.

none on any of them

You actually looked for expiration dates on hard alcohol? Fucking rock dude...

 

[TwiceOver]

I remember seeing bottles with the paper sticker over the cap when I was really young. Bottles must be at least 20+ years old. IMO

 

[DomS]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
I remember seeing bottles with the paper sticker over the cap when I was really young. Bottles must be at least 20+ years old. IMO

yeah, the old design and the paper sticker over the cap threw me off. I never saw anything like that before. So the guess here is 1970s then?

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: DomS

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
I remember seeing bottles with the paper sticker over the cap when I was really young. Bottles must be at least 20+ years old. IMO

yeah, the old design and the paper sticker over the cap threw me off. I never saw anything like that before. So the guess here is 1970s then?

gets my vote too, judging from the labels alone

 

[alkemyst]

your dad is going to be soooo pissed.

 

[Squisher]

The tape is to show that it was taxed appropriately by the state.

 

[DomS]

Originally posted by: Squisher
The tape is to show that it was taxed appropriately by the state.

how long has it been since that practice was stopped??

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: DomS

Originally posted by: Squisher
The tape is to show that it was taxed appropriately by the state.

how long has it been since that practice was stopped??

http://www.rdhinstl.com/taxpaid.htm

"Liquor had its own tax stamps. The beer and malt liquor stamps were once considered as taxpaids, but they are now Scott-listed. The strip stamps that were found over the tops of bottles of hard liquor are still in the taxpaid category. These examples are a used "bottled in bond" stamp for one pint of 100-proof liquor, probably bourbon, and an unused distilled spirits stamp for one quart. Some forms of these were used until July 1, 1985"

 

[BKLounger]

my father used to have some bottles of VO like that. If i were to give it an educated guess i would mark them around mid to late 70's. Probably not of much value. The contents are completely shot but the bottle might be a couple bucks to a collector if they are in good shape.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: DomS

Originally posted by: Squisher
The tape is to show that it was taxed appropriately by the state.

how long has it been since that practice was stopped??

http://www.rdhinstl.com/taxpaid.htm

"Liquor had its own tax stamps. The beer and malt liquor stamps were once considered as taxpaids, but they are now Scott-listed. The strip stamps that were found over the tops of bottles of hard liquor are still in the taxpaid category. These examples are a used "bottled in bond" stamp for one pint of 100-proof liquor, probably bourbon, and an unused distilled spirits stamp for one quart. Some forms of these were used until July 1, 1985"

I just looked, I've got 16 bottles in my Liquor cabinet that have the tax tape/stamp.

 

[TTM77]

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/DomS/141-4151_IMG.JPG

:rofl: Y the 2 balls? LOL

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: TTM77
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/DomS/141-4151_IMG.JPG

:rofl: Y the 2 balls? LOL

:laugh:

Nice catch.

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Expiration date.

Liquor expires?

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: DomS

Originally posted by: Squisher
The tape is to show that it was taxed appropriately by the state.

how long has it been since that practice was stopped??

http://www.rdhinstl.com/taxpaid.htm

"Liquor had its own tax stamps. The beer and malt liquor stamps were once considered as taxpaids, but they are now Scott-listed. The strip stamps that were found over the tops of bottles of hard liquor are still in the taxpaid category. These examples are a used "bottled in bond" stamp for one pint of 100-proof liquor, probably bourbon, and an unused distilled spirits stamp for one quart. Some forms of these were used until July 1, 1985"

I just looked, I've got 16 bottles in my Liquor cabinet that have the tax tape/stamp.

The bottles have plastic screw-caps on them. They can't be too old...Hell, I remember ALL hard liquor having the tax-stamp tapes on them Us "dedicated drinkers" used to "pop" the bottom of the bottle to break the tape...but I've also broken the tops of the cap doing it that way...and shooting booze everywhere.
Based on the plastic caps, I'd agree with some of the other posters...late 70's to early 80's.

BTW, when I was a drinker, I lived by the rule that booze DOES go bad. Once you open a bottle, you HAVE to drink it all. If you put the cap back on it, it'd have turned bad by the next day...
Nowadays, I have open jugs in the booze closet that are 8-10 years old...and they haven't gone bad yet...

 

[richardycc]

I have no idea what you are asking us to do..the gordon dry gin is I.D as gordon dry gin, what else is there to i.d?? or do you want us to try to date these bottles??

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: DomS

Originally posted by: Squisher
The tape is to show that it was taxed appropriately by the state.

how long has it been since that practice was stopped??

http://www.rdhinstl.com/taxpaid.htm

"Liquor had its own tax stamps. The beer and malt liquor stamps were once considered as taxpaids, but they are now Scott-listed. The strip stamps that were found over the tops of bottles of hard liquor are still in the taxpaid category. These examples are a used "bottled in bond" stamp for one pint of 100-proof liquor, probably bourbon, and an unused distilled spirits stamp for one quart. Some forms of these were used until July 1, 1985"

I just looked, I've got 16 bottles in my Liquor cabinet that have the tax tape/stamp.

You really need to work on your alcohol consumption