World Silver & Bronze
Lot 2143 Session 7 (11.30am Wednesday) World Silver & Bronze
Estimate $700
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $420
U.S.A., encased postage stamp token or store card, one cent Drakes Plantation Bitters Pat Aug 12, 1862 J. Gault. Very fine and scarce.
Ex Garrett (lot 2038) Collection part IV and W.J. Noble Collection Sale 61 (lot 1306). Colonel Patrick H. Drake manufactured a drink, essentially 100 proof rum. Classed as 'bitter' it was regarded as medicine and not subject to the alcohol tax. It was marketed in amber bottles shaped like a log-cabin, the poison strychnine was also one of the ingredients
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