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Bininger's Pioneer Bourbon, 1859

A frontiersman warms himself by firelight, rifle at hand.

What

A companion label to Bininger's Old Kentucky Bourbon — a frontiersman with rifle, warming himself by a campfire under moonlight, the frontier mythology already fully formed by 1859.

Why

Same defunct house, same dead mark — this pairs with the Old Kentucky label as a matched set from Bininger's New York operation.

Notice

The nocturnal palette — most whiskey labels of the era sold daylight abundance; this one sells solitude.

“The fire went out. The scene stayed lit.”

Format

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Size

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Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Printer: Sarony, Major & Knapp, N.Y.
Country: United States
Format: Broadside
Piece published: Bininger's Pioneer Bourbon, A.M. Bininger & Co. — advertising label, 1859
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · LCCN 99403797

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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.