This decanter is 14" tall x 4" wide at the base, x 7" at guitar, in RARE WHITE western-style SUIT, with BLUE TRIM, like was worn in his 'Hey, Good Lookin'" video, and many of his concerts. On the decanter, he's in front of a replica of Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry. The more common released decanter version had him wearing a very 'light blue' suit.

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Vintage Hank Williams Sr 1923-1953 figure EMPTY Whiskey Decanter Flask from 1970 !

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Made in Japan, originally filled with McCormick American Blended Whiskey (rinsed out completely) Music box key turns, spindle turns but isn't 'catching' - I'm not sure why. All parts appear to be there, and otherwise function.

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After over 50 years, the original cork had partly disintegrated, so I replaced it with a food grade rubber cork that should last for many decades. There is no retail box, as this was used, and sat on a display shelf for decades.

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This will ship well packed, double boxed, tracked, fully insured, and probably signature required (so a porch pirate doesn't get it, and any damage to the packaging can be reported immediately to the carrier).

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This is an ORIGINAL McCormick's Collectable HANK WILLIAMS, Sr. born September 17th, 1923, Died on January 1st, 1953. Inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961.

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Born Hiram Williams, the "Hillbilly Shakespeare" came from a rural background. His parents were probably strawberry farmers when he was born, although his father, Lon, later worked for logging companies around Georgiana in south Alabama.

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Williams was born with a spinal deformity, spina bifida occulta, that would later have a harmful impact upon his life. Lon, a World War I veteran, entered a Veterans Administration hospital in 1930 when Hank was six, and his son rarely saw him until the early 1940s. Hank's mother, Lillie, moved the family to Greenville and then, in 1937, to Montgomery, Alabama.

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Williams's musical career was already underway by the mid-1930s, and he formed the first of his Drifting Cowboys bands around 1938. He spent the war years shuttling between Montgomery, where he played music, and Mobile, where he worked in the shipyards. In December 1944, he married Audrey Mae Sheppard, and, after the war, he reformed the Drifting Cowboys and became the biggest hillbilly music star in Montgomery. His progress was impeded, though, by his drinking, which was already problematic, and by the fact that his music was considered anachronistic.

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Porcelain Decanter Near-Mint Condition figurine.