Description
THE OLD KENTUCKY LIQUOR CO., Saloon whiskey jug, CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO
1/2-gallon
Circa 1900
Manuel & Joseph Rosenfield, father & son proprietors
320 – 322 Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado
After the 1903-04, Cripple Creek Labor War, the Rosenfields thought it best to move to Pueblo, Colorado and reopened their saloon. By 1910, the Rosenfields were in Denver operating yet another saloon. And then, in 1913, the Rosenfields moved to Alameda, California, a small community near San Francisco. There, as Prohibition gripped the Nation, they opened the Rosenfield Packing Company. In the early 1920s, Joseph Rosenfield capitalized on the enormous quantity of peanuts local farmers produced by patenting a process to make and preserve “peanut butter.” This business became SKIPPY PEANUT BUTTER, securing the Rosenfields’ fortune just before the Crash of 1929.
Condition: near fine to fine; no cracks, two minor nicks in lip of spout, one is possibly a manufacturing flaw; however, stencil on back of jug is little more than faint.
Saloon whiskey dimensions: 7-1/2 inches in height; 6-1/4 inches in diameter.
Two-tone whiskey jug with blue under-glaze stencil.
A wee gem with a “macro” history.
