GORDON'S DRY GIN Bottles.

Two Very Similar Gordon's Dry Gin Bottles.

Front reads: GORDON'S DRY GIN.

One side reads: LONDON, and the other side: ENGLAND.

I've found a few of these and they all have the wolf's head symbol on the bottom.

Bottom of Gordon's Dry Gin Bottle.

The other bottom embossing varies on different bottles.

Both bottles show REGD 610617 on the back.

No. On One Side of Same Bottle.

The BayBottles.com web site (link below) says that number means the bottle dates to 1912 -1913.

The lips on these two bottles are different.

Lips On Same Two Bottles.

The lip on the greener bottle looks more crudely made.  The lip of that one is applied over the neck, which makes a more narrow opening.

The BayBottles.com web site also provides the following information.

The initial Gordon’s Distillery dates back to 1769 in London and they began making a form of dry gin sometime after the advent of continuous distillation in the 1830’s.

Gordon & Company merged with Tanqueray  in 1898 and it was around this time  that listings for Gordon Dry Gin began to appear in U.S. newspaper advertisements. The first mention that I could find in a New York City newspaper were several advertisements for Macy’s, who listed Gordons Gin under the heading “Fine Wines for Medicinal Use.”