1861 Scarce OLD MEDFORD RUM Broadside Massachusetts Pre-Prohibition Liquor N/R!

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"The best rum in the States" Scarce original broadside or circular for Old Medford Rum, manufactured by Daniel Lawrence & Sons, Medford, Massachusetts, April 15, 1861, letterpress printed on a cream laid sheet measuring 9-3/4" x 7-3/4", with original handwritten additions, blank conjugate leaf. Mailing folds (tiny hole at one intersection), otherwise clean, bright, and near fine. Together with: The original handwritten letter of transmittal, addressed to Ruben Hayes, Esq. in East Alton, New Hampshire, dated February 1, 1862, as well as the mailing envelope with intact three-cent stamp.A Massachusetts distillery in the midst of the Civil War. The text of the circular reads, in part: "Having been duly authorized to manufacture spirituous liquors and to sell the same, in quantities not less than forty gallons, to be exported out of the Commonwealth, or to be used in the arts or for mechanical and chemical purposes in this Commonwealth, or to duly authorized Agents of Towns and Cities, would inform the public that we shall manufacture PURE MOLASSES RUM at MEDFORD, and endeavor to maintain what we have so long enjoyed, the reputation of manufacturing the best Rum in the States."The purity and regularity of LAWRENCE'S MEDFORD RUM, for the past thirty-seven years, has given such universal satisfaction to the consumers of this Celebrated read more

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