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The source connects package technology, authorized sellers, age claims, rail trade, banking, and consumer trust.
Mechanized bottle making, adulteration fears, named sealed packages, and federal bonding turned the bottle into an identity guarantee. Hannush places Judge John Woodard's 1868 bottled Pure Robertson County whisky before the 1897 Bottled-in-Bond Act as an early Tennessee use of packaging to protect provenance.
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Bottling, bonding, and Robertson County provenance
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