C Molitor Wine Delaware Wine "LOB" label under glass

C. Molitor Winery Sandusky, OH  Delaware Wine Bottle "Pat'D 1874"
Wrapped in whicker and label is under glass
Beatuiful very RARE bottle "maybe only one known" Cracking around the LOB area

Born in Rhenish Prussia, Germany, in 1828, Casper Molitor immigrated to the United States and settled in Danbury Township. This area sits just across Sandusky Bay on the Marblehead Peninsula, directly tying his operations to the broader Sandusky wine boom. 

Molitor specialized in cultivating native grapes and processing them into regional wines. His winery contributed to an era when the Sandusky district had dozens of active commercial wine producers and wholesalers.