RARE PORTLAND FIFTH

Here are a couple of pictures that Dale Mlasko just sent me. This is an ultra rare glob fifth, Marx and Jorgensen Wholesale Wine And Whiskey Merchants Portland, Oregon(t-112). There are only two examples known, and this is the stronger of the two examples.

Marx and Jorgensen were in business in Portland for quite a few years, but this embossed glob fifth was probably made and used for just a year or two in 1879-80 or so. A rare bird and certainly one of the top Oregon bottles.