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The Midacore database family
contains a wealth of information about many aspects of the liquor industry and
its principals during the years leading up to Prohibition. At its heart is
the Liquor Dealer database; over 20,000 liquor wholesalers and retailers are
listed, along with their dates of operation and business addresses during the
period 1860-1920. The Distilleries database provides information about
where the dealers were obtaining their wares, while the Whiskey Brands database
identifies names of brands sold by the dealers. The Dealer listing
pages also showcase bottles, jugs, advertising and many other branded items that
have survived from this era. Chief among them are shot glasses: three
different databases contain information and values on
10,000 or more known examples. Click on the links below to
access any of these databases.
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LIQUOR DEALERS: Business directory listings for
Wholesalers and Retailers
This
database includes information gleaned from city business directories
on names and addresses of Distillers, Rectifiers and
Liquor Wholesalers from 1860 to Prohibition. Listing
pages also showcase many artifacts associated with these businesses. |
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DISTILLERIES: The www.pre-pro.com Distilleries Database
A compilation of information on the actual distilleries
who were supplying the wholesalers and who were
themselves often a direct source of advertising.
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BRAND
NAMES: The
Robert E. Snyder Whiskey Brand Database
Bob Snyder tracked the origins and use of thousands of
pre-prohibition whiskey brands. New brands are added monthly
to help collectors identify the source of a branded
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SHOT
GLASSES:
The
pre-pro.com Shot-Glass Database
One of the main goals of this
website was to create an online database that lists ALL known shot
glasses, along with information about their origins, their originators, and
with a clear picture if available. It's updated monthly to incorporate new information and contributions.
Collectors:
please consider contributing data on your glasses to
help this database grow! |
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SHOT
GLASSES:
The Barbara
Edmonson Database
There are
only two books that list pre-Prohibition shot glasses and their values.
Both were written by Barbara Edmonson. The first was Historic
Shot Glasses (HSG), the second Old Advertising Spirits Glasses
(OASG). Both have been scanned, uploaded, and made freely
available here. A cumulative index that lists every glass in HSG, OASG,
and that appears in the www.pre-pro.com
Shot-Glass database (above) links you
with relevant pages in the books and/or the Shot-Glass
database. |
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SHOT GLASSES:
The Sales
Database
The database includes sales data from 30,000+
glass auctions logged over the past sixteen years,
including several thousand that are unlisted in the two databases above.
Access requires a membership fee; serious collectors will want to take out membership
at the Sniper level to access statistics showing
rarity and values of pre-pro glasses. Trial
memberships are available. |
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If you find thes databases useful, please consider helping support
the site with a financial contribution.
www.pre-pro.com survives on the
generosity of its patrons alone:
we receive no corporate sponsorship.
A link to Paypal is provided for your convenience.
THANK YOU !!
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