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Old Jameson bottle.Bottled by T.W. Begge. 60s?

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Old Jameson bottle.Bottled by T.W. Begge. 60s?

Postby Steve Amsterdam » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:06 pm

Found this old Jameson whiskey bottle in a crate in the attic, unopened. Belonged to my wife's grandfather. Guestimating it was bottled around the 60's. Anyone any info on T.W. Begge & co on Bachelor's Walk? From what I can find is that they were a tea & wine merchants.

Any info on possible value too is appreciated.
It's a smaller bottle,so not the miniature, but the hipflask size you get in the off license kinda thing.

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Re: Old Jameson bottle.Bottled by T.W. Begge. 60s?

Postby Steve Amsterdam » Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:21 pm

The Dublin whiskey would mean a Bow street make,
and not much evaporation over the years. I'll post up some more pictures soon.
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Re: Old Jameson bottle.Bottled by T.W. Begge. 60s?

Postby Good Whiskey Hunting » Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:06 am

Hi Steve,

That's a nice find. Have you photos of it with a lighter background, It's difficult to see using a phone. Is it a driven cork? Is the capsule(gererally foil wrapping)intact?
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Re: Old Jameson bottle.Bottled by T.W. Begge. 60s?

Postby Steve Amsterdam » Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:47 pm

I'll get some more pictures this evening after work. Hopefully those will help some more.
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Re: Old Jameson bottle.Bottled by T.W. Begge. 60s?

Postby Steve Amsterdam » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:27 pm

Here's a few more pics as promised.
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Re: Old Jameson bottle.Bottled by T.W. Begge. 60s?

Postby Steve Amsterdam » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:30 pm

And another three :-)
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Re: Old Jameson bottle.Bottled by T.W. Begge. 60s?

Postby IrishWhiskeyChaser » Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:26 am

Nice little bottle (a naggin), and looks original.

This is an excellent curio and a nice piece of history, probably containing pot still from the original John's lane distillery.

The actual bottler will not affect the value of this bottling as every retailer, wine merchant and pub bottled these in the day so unless it is a very famous establishment with a following no real affect on value.

However this is something that collectors would be interested in but unfortunately I do not think it will be of any major value.

Whiskey from this period is still fairly common and from that point of view the whiskey itself is not overly rare.

So from a regular collectors point of view 30-50 Euro is my guesstimate but that is all it is ... a guess as I'm not sure on the collectablity of naggins.
However it could easily be a case that a minitures collector may have a bigger interest in it. Again unfortunately it may be too large for those collectors.

An idea would be to contact the Celtic Whiskey shop to see what they say?
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