1937 Seagram Distillers Medallion

[oldmxrat]

Went hiking around the woods by Lake Tahoe hoping to find an older something, anything.
Came across a very small creek coming down from a steep mountainside that had a lot of visible older glass and china fragments. Pulled a couple of intact bottles from the black mud. They had all of the graphics and writing when I pulled them out. Didn't have my phone or I would have taken a pic or two.

Got a great signal on the detector and pulled the medicine sample aluminum container. Rang up just like a silver dollar...Dang!
A few minutes later I got a signal just like a half dollar and pulled up the 80th anniversary Seagram Distillers medallion.

Unfortunately, all the graphics on the bottles rubbed off in my backpack.
They were "Cock and Bull Bombay Water" bottles with really neat looking images and writing. Oh well.

Gotta study up on how to preserve the graphics on old bottles like that.

Thanks for lookin!

 

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[E-Trac-Ohio]

Very cool finds - congrats !

 

[Mackaydon]

The medallion was made in 1937. The reverse reads:
The Seagram Creed of Craftmanship
"Rule #1
Make finer whiskies
Make then taste better"
Great saves.

Don....

 

[billb]

Wow
You are doing great this year.
Congratulations

 

[Mackaydon]

A pic of the Cock 'n Bull logo:

The C and B was a great watering hole for lunch or evening entertainment where the actors of Hollywood would regularly dine and enbide. The restaurant was at 9170 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. It was open from 1937 to 1987. The area of the restaurant was absorbed by the then adjacent owner: Hornburg Jaguar--until 2021. Last I heard the site was planned to be developed with a five-story building featuring a restaurant on the ground floor and offices above. Some call it progress; I call it destruction of an historic building.
Don in SoCal

 

[Mackaydon]

Back in the day (starting in 1963),I worked at Union Bank located at 8th and Hill in LA; across the street was the May Co that sold C 'n B Bombay Water--as shown here:

Don in SoCal