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W. L. WELLER. / & SONS. (two lines arched) / ROYAL / Whiskey (two lines slanted up over each other) / LOUISVILLE, KY. (reverse arched and tsp on a frosted scroll)

ID#: RRP2944
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Glass Category:Liquor advertising
Glass Type:Thin-walled shot
Label Type:Usual white-etched label
Dimensions:2-5/16" x 2-1/16" x 1-1/2"
Edmonson:Not listed
State:KY
City:Louisville
Notes:
Wm L Weller & Sons listed from 1869-1919.

This looks like a George Truog design: the glass is one of the older ones.

The following is taken from OASG:
"W. L. Weller & Sons (DSP 16 KY, Louisville). In 1849 William Larue Weller began a wholesale liquor business as W. L. Weller & Sons. After the Civil War, two salesmen, Julian P. Van Winkle and Alex T. Farnsley joined the firm, and they purchased the business when Mr. Weller died. The main brands were Old W. L. Weller, Mammoth Cave and Cabin Still bourbons and Stone Root & Gin. They purchased whiskey on the open market and later contracted for large lots from distillers, among which were Stitzel Bros. in Lousville and Old Joe in Anderson county. After Old Joe burned in 1912 and was rebuilt by the Hawkins Bros., most of the output of that plant was controlled by W. L. Weller & Sons.
During prohibition A. Ph. Stitzel produced medicinal whiskey for Weller, among others. During this period Weller obtained the Old Fitzgerald brand from S. C. Herbst and used it as a leading brand. After repeal, the Stitzel plant operated as the The Stitzel-Weller Distillery under control of the younger members of the Van Winkle and Farnsley families. In 1933 work began on a large new Stitzel-Weller plant near Shively. This produced Old Fitzgerald, W. L. Weller, Cabin Still and a private brand, Rebel Yell for Alex Farnsley which he distributed free to state legislators at Frankfort as a function of the Whiskey lobby. It was later bottled and sold 'south of the Mason-Dixon line.' Since repeal Stitzel-Weller claimed to be the nation's oldest family distillery and claimed to stick to Phil Stitzel's assertion 'this is a DISTILLERY, not a whiskey factory,' claiming that the process was carried out by the old methods, not by chemists. In 1972 the company was sold to the Norton Simon group of New York, reorganized as The Old Fitzgerald Distillery and operated by Somerset Importers, a subsidiary (Coyte Papers)."

Brand names used by this company include: "Boss Hit", "Cabin Still", "Creedmore", "Gold Crown", "Harlem Club", "Kentucky's Motto", "La Rues Malt", "Mammoth Cave", "Old Crib", "Old Potomac", "Potomac", "Quarter Century", "Rose Glen", "Rosewood", "Royal Whiskey", "Silas B. Johnson", "Stone Root Gin", "Uncle Buck", "Uncle Slocum Gin", and "W. L. Weller Stone - Root Gin."

Company name timeline:
W L Weller (1869), Wm L Weller & Son (1870-1886), Wm L Weller & Sons (1887-1919)

Address timeline:
6 th, N Main (1869), 169 W Main (1870), Main NW cor 3 rd (1871), 28 2 nd (1872), 24-28 Water, nr 2 nd (1873), 44 Main, SE cor Brook (1874-1881), 200 E Main, cor Brook (1882-1897), 131-133 W Main (1902-1909), 121 W Main (1909-1919)

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