I am looking for a very old bottle supposedly carved from bone in which white horse whiskey was bottled.?

Question

I only know that my great grandfather used to drink this whiskey and at some point the bottles began to be manufacturd in plastic. Supposedly there was a time when they were carved out of bone. Open to suggestions...I have very limited information.

Answer 1

I can't imagine it was made out of bone. Mainly because you'd have to have an elephant bone for it to be big enough to build a bottle out of it.

There may have been some sort of bone connected to the glass or some carved ivory on the product, although with White Horse you're talking about a fairly stock midshelf scotch blend... and the Scots aren't famous for their horses or horsemanship. White horse is named after a tavern in Scotland.  I'd expect something like this from an early Bourbon, perhaps, more horse connection with the old west and so forth.

I've poked around on some collector's sites and they go back pretty far with nothing quite so unusual. Are you sure it was the original packaging and not a flask or something ivory your grandfather owned?