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Bininger's Old Kentucky Bourbon, 1860

A woman carries the grain sheaves that became the glass.

What

A. M. Bininger & Co.'s New York-bottled Kentucky bourbon, labeled with a chromolithograph of a woman carrying grain sheaves — the raw material personified.

Why

Bininger & Co. dissolved in the 19th century with no modern revival; this is pre-Bininger-era Americana, older than the house's core 1880s window but the same dead-mark doctrine applies.

Notice

The label-as-artwork format — this predates the poster-scale advertising the rest of this collection favors, closer to trade-card illustration blown up to the bottle's own sheet.

“The label survived the bottle by a century and a half.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.

Size

Personalization (title-swap) is coming to this piece — join the house list to hear first.

$29.00

Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Printer: F. Heppenheimer, N.Y.
Country: United States
Format: Broadside
Piece published: Bininger's Old Kentucky Bourbon, A.M. Bininger & Co., N.Y. sole proprietors — advertising label, 1860
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · LCCN 99403779

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Scan: Library of Congress, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-16.

Bininger's was gone from the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.