Box, Packing, Whiskey

Object/Artifact

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Perth Museum

Name/Title

Box, Packing, Whiskey

Entry/Object ID

992.79.1

Description

Rectangular dovetailed, wooden packing case, with black markings stamped on. Front: Established 1879- Mountain Dew Registered- Whiskey-Spalding & Stewart - Distillers Perth Manufactured from the best Barley malt, fully ripend in Wood and Bottled in bond under Goverment Supervision. The trademark is stensilled at the right front: Stamped on Back: Distillery No 1 Inland Revenue Division No 21 24 Flasks 1.86 Galls Bottled 10.97 18 U.P. The box is quite weatheres with the top 3/4 missing. The top front wood has been damaged (probably when the nails were remeoved to take off the lid). The back of the case has a split running horizontally (12cm from top) for 28cm. There is a patch of dried black substance, (3cmx2cm) on the insottom.

Dimensions

Height

23 cm

Width

34.5 cm

Length

47 cm