Blanton’s bottle toppers

[barelfly]

Hey all you bourbon sippers -

anyone happen to have an extra Blanton’s bottle topper with the letter “B” or the first “N” that they would give up or sell me? My dad has been collecting these bottle toppers, trying to collect the set to display on a barrel stave.

Thought I’d ask here - I know there are a number of us that enjoy a good bourbon. Blanton’s is one of them, but we just can’t get our hands on it here in New Mexico. So thought I would ask The Pit!

thank you

[Jfrosty27]

Love the bourbon. Never noticed the letters on the toppers! I’ll ask my son. He’s a bourbon collector and loves Blanton’s for his own consumption. Maybe he has one. 🤷♂️

[barelfly]

Thank you for checking! They are pretty cool, and fun to see some of the displays that are made with them.

[58limited]

Wish I could help, they are pricey on ebay I see.

[barelfly]

Some aren’t bad from what I saw. I’ll resort to that if I can’t come up with them this way. Would rather try and get them via a board where I somewhat know the members posting at least. I don’t know if some letters are harder to come by or not, and if that makes some more than others.

But thanks for the reply!

[Alan Brice]

I am seeing 99cents up to Thirty bucks here in Cincy.

[Andrrr]

Are you looking for the N that's pictured at middle left?

[barelfly]

Yes, that is the N I need.

[Andrrr]

Dang, I have the other one. I'll keep an eye out barelfly

[Huskee]

That's a good question. We too have been saving ours and we have a couple repeats. I will check to see what I have. Does he have any duplicates, so we could possibly do a trade?

[barelfly]

Yes, we have a T and an N: which is the second N in the photo above

Thanks for checking Huskee!

[Huskee]

barelfly Which T though?

[Huskee]

barelfly Turns out I have an extra B for you. We need the second N! Wanna do a trade?

Also, we need an A & O, and we have an extra L and S, so if you discover extras of those or if anyone else reads this hit me up!

[barelfly]

Yep. Let’s make that trade! B for N: and…the L and the S. Save those suckers for me. I need those. I have an extra T as well.

[CaptainMike]

I have a buddy who has the whole run (and a few extras).

[barelfly]

Cool! Does he display them on a barrel stave? My dad says if you collect all the letters, Blanton’s or Buffalo Trace Distillery sends you a barrel stave to display them. That’s what he is after!

[CaptainMike]

You know, he just has them sitting in his "wine cellar" (AKA utility room). I'll ask him if he knows about the barrel stave thing.

[CaptainMike]

Update, my friend did not know of the barrel stave promo. While he has collected the whole set, most are unopened bottles. He says there might be more incentive to start cacking them open now!

[Bkhuna]

I'll gladly swap the contents of the bottle for the caps. Hell, I'll chip in the bottle and label too.

[Rfhd69]

Haaaaaaa!

[Alan Brice]

The product is a rare find here. I have a "T" & an "O". Will never afford enough purchases to hope for a stave. Huskee I will trade my O for any of your xtras, just not a T.

[barelfly]

Sounds good Alan - let me see what I have after the few trades I’m making and I’ll let you know for future reference as well.

[Huskee]

Great! I'm just waking up but I'll PM you later.

[kjbarth]

You can buy a whole set or the individual letters direct from Buffalo Trace. https://www.buffalotracedistillery.c...-stoppers.html

[barelfly]

Thank you. Yes, but I don’t believe they will accept these for the presentation stave they provide if you collect all letters. From what I understand, they only accept used toppers.

So, the interwebs have guided me to eBay for letters, which may be the way I go for one of the last letters.

[Alan Brice]

barelfly If Huskee decides he does not want this. I am open to a trade.

[surfdog]

One can also purchase the stave directly from Blanton’s…

https://www.blantonsbourbonshop.com/shop/barrel-stave

[barelfly]

For those of you who might be interested in the Blanton’s barrel stave - my Dad emailed Buffalo Trace Distillery to see what was needed to get the display. Here’s the email he received from the distillery.

If anyone has the regular N, or has a friend that might - that’s all I need to find for him. Please let me know if you would be willing to trade to send my way to complete the set!

[Andrrr]

I used to see it all the time but I have noticed it’s tough to find lately. I’ll be keeping my eye out though

[JCBBQ]

So you don’t buy anything? You just send them in and they mount them and send it to you?

[barelfly]

JCBBQ yes that is what my dad is going to do. That email was directly from them. I think the fact you bought a number of bottles is enough!

[JCBBQ]

Huskee barelfly Fellas, I’ve got a complete set and lots of extras. If you want to PM me w what you want and your name and address I’ll take a look and send them off.

[Huskee]

Atta boy! That sounds like a pile of fun evenings. (Or mornings, not here to judge).

[JCBBQ]

Huskee yeah Blanton’s was my go to back when I could find it for $46. Then it crept up to $65 I still would get it occasionally but now I can’t find it or they want over $100. Totally rediculous. Ah well.

[Huskee]

Same here. It was always $40-45 in the days when I didn't care. Once I started getting into bourbon it was $60 if you could find it. Then years passed and now it's a unicorn. The last bottle I seen in a local store was $100. Prior to that $200. It's good but not that good. That secondary market really irks me, it should be illegal, but the law likes it this way since they get that higher tax money so everyone wins except the non-wealthy non-collectors.

[JCBBQ]

My name is JCBBQ and I’m an alcoholic 😮

[Alan Brice]

That is impressive! Can I deduce, the "B" and the second "N", by the looks of your collection, are the difficult finds?

[CaptainMike]

An alchy with good taste!

[JCBBQ]

I forgot there are two different “N”s. Here’s the accurate pic

[barelfly]

Quite the collection here! 🥃

[JCBBQ]

Huskee So thanks to this thread Mrs jcbbq will get me the thing to mount it on. I’d really forgotten about them. They’ve been in a drawer for years.

[JCBBQ]

Alan Brice Yeah the B was the only one I have a single.

[Huskee]

Buffalo Trace is going to get a sudden influx of topper sets sent in to them and they will surely question what happened.

[barelfly]

😎 ha!