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Whisky bottle with accompanying note

Whisky bottle with accompanying note

Date Added: 24 April 2008 Year Range: 1860 - 1870 Institution Name: dnhhl Cat No: | 2007_172 | Picture No: 3332

Whisky bottle with accompanying note found during building work at Hilton House, Castle Street, Dornoch, in the attic space behind a plaster wall. The bottle is a 3 piece moulded blown bottle in olive green glass with nurmerous air bubbles. From the rim, body shape and base the overall date of the bottle is 1840 - early 1870. The accompanying note reads: "In memory of A Gray and Hugh McKenzie whitch Drunk this Bottle of Whisky 1864"

Dimensions: Length300 mm - Diameter 80 mm at neck 30 mm

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