Sunny Brook Brand bottle with US NAvy Mess stamp

[zbully]

I have come across what appears to be an old bottle of Old Sunny Brook Brand whiskey that has a US Navy Mess stamp on it. i am interested in knowing roughly how old this is. the bottle stamp is somewhat delapidated, but the bottle has never been opened. Can someone help, please?!

[bourbonv]

Sunnybrook is an old brand that goes back to the days before prohibition. For general information about the brand, look at the Beam/National distillers timeline in the Bourbon Lore forum.

Before anyone can really give any specific information on the bootle you need to provide more information such as bottle size, proof of the bourbon type of labels and information on the labels. Photographs would be even better.

[zbully]

The bottle is 4/5 quart, and the bottle also states "federal law forbids sale"

this is : The old Sunny Brook Brand, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

bottled by The Old Sunny Brook Company, Louisbille Kentucky

it has a US Navy Mess sticker on itwith IC: 81394

The back label states "Cheerful as its name"
Fully Aged
86 proof
This whiskey is four years ols.

the bottom of the bottle has:

1642
D1
129 54

does this help withidentification?

[bourbonv]

That helps quite a bit. The fact that it is a 4/5 quart and not metric dates it to before 1979. The 86 Proof became popular in the mid 1950's so it is probably after 1950. Sometimes, but not always, the numbers on the bottom of the bottle includes the year the glass was made. This is usually within a year of when the whiskey was bottled. The "54" on the bottom could indicate the year the glass was made and would mean the whiskey is from 1954 or 1955.

I suspect the bottle was part of a shipment to a Navy base to be sold in the PX. Is there a red strip stamp over the cork/cap? If not it would indicate a tax free bottle sold to servicemen.

[zbully]

yes, there is a bottle stamp..looks like from the Internal Revenue Service.

it is a little worn so i really cant read it to well.