Description
Rare 1920’s Prohibition-era bootlegger’s briefcase containing three large solid silver flasks by J.E. Caldwell & Co.
Brown leather bootleggers Briefcase with two locking clasps to help keep its special contents secure and from prying eyes. Opening this wonderful bootleggers leather briefcase reveals three giant solid Silver Flasks with special hinged screw-topped lids, each one carefully housed in three padded compartments. Each Flask is marked on the base by famous American Jeweler/silversmiths of Philadelphia J.E Caldwell & Co.
This wonderful rare leather briefcase was among items made for bootleggers in the 1920s due to the prohibition and the ban, disguised as a slim briefcase for the office carried by a very well-dressed Gent or Lady off to work in the city, who would question it? Very rare to find and very sought after too. This one in particular must have been specially made and belonged to someone who was very high up in the industry at bootlegging given its solid silver contents. Could this of belonged to the Mafia, King of Bootleggers in the 1920s, if only it could talk, what tales and stories it could reveal?
Prohibition began in the United States from 1920 to 1933 with the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol. Despite the new legislation, Prohibition was difficult to enforce. The illegal production and sale of liquor (known as “bootlegging”), the proliferation of speakeasies (illegal drinking spots) and the accompanying rise in gang violence and organised crime led to waning support for Prohibition by the end of the 1920s. In early 1933, Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th. The 21st Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933, ending Prohibition.
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