I found a bottle in my great-uncle's loft


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FoundABottle 🇬🇧 | 0 ratings Author Posted 7 Sep '21

I found this bottle in 2018 when clearing my great-uncles home. It states that Corney & Barrow Ltd manufactured it. I visited their establishment at 1 Thomas Moore Square in 2019 and showed them the bottle, yet no-one there had any knowledge of such a bottle be manufactured. I shared my contact details with them and never received any information. I am currently trying to get in contact with them again, but any help identifying the time period it was made and if it's even real would be greatly appreciated.
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vomi1011 🇩🇪 | 402 ratings Replied 8 Sep '21

Looks like a bottle from the 70s. They bottled whisky but it's also possible that they bottled rum from Jamaica. Even when they don't know about it.

 https://scotchwhisky.com/whiskypedia/2799/corney-barrow/

You can compare the rum label to their whisky labels to find out the period.

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FoundABottle 🇬🇧 | 0 ratings Author Replied 9 Sep '21

Some friends and I did some further research and found that, from the label, the bottle had to have been manufactured between 1953 and 1967. I tried to figure out when the actual bottle was made but the closest I could get was after 1930.