Fire Extinguisher Cocktail Shaker

• Handmade in brass; nickel-plated outside, silver-plated inside
• Food grade safe
• Eccentric and functional
• Original cork details
• Threaded caps

• Product Description

• Shake your guests' drinks with a historic conversation piece. This shaker is made after an original design from the 1920s. During Prohibition, decorative designs that differed from the classic shaker shape were in fashion to make them less easily recognized by the police.

In 1919, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, commonly referred to as the Volstead Act, which outlawed the production, distribution, and transportation of alcohol. Prohibition officially went into effect on January 16, 1920. Originally envisioned as an age of moral reform for the country, the next decade saw an increase in organized crime, homicides, burglaries, and assaults as gangs supplied speakeasies with smuggled alcohol and law enforcement became overwhelmed.

With public opinion against it, Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigned on repealing Prohibition, which ended in 1933 with the ratification of the 21st Amendment.