This bottle is embossed on the heal: THE DRAMBUIE LIQUEUR CO. LTD.
EDINBURGH SCOTLAND.
The FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS SALE OR RE-USE OF THIS BOTTLE message is on the shoulder, which puts the date between 1935 and 1964.
There are also some numbers on the bottom.
Drambuie was first commercially produced in Union Street in Edinburgh in 1910. Only twelve cases were originally sold. In 1916, Drambuie became the first liqueur to be allowed in the cellars of the House of Lords and Drambuie began to ship worldwide to British Army officers' messes.
About 1940, the company moved to bonded premises in Dublin Street Lane where the liquor was compounded (the process of flavouring and sweetening the whisky spirit). The bottling plant was in the same lane while the company office was in York Place. After a short period at nearby Broughton Market, in 1955 the operation was moved to premises at the foot of Easter Road in Leith. Further expansion led to a move to purpose-built premises on the western edge of Kirlinsin 1959. These premises were vacated in 2001 and thereafter production was contracted out, in the first instance to the Glenmorangie bottling plant at Broxburn and, in 2010, to Morrison Bowmore Distillers. Source: Wikipedia.
There is a lot of history to this liquor. Skipping a few pages to get down to the bottom line, here is a bit of the story.
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