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Historical accounts of Vin Mariani focus perhaps exclusively upon the years prior to the prohibition era. Here is a bit of the history following the 1906 U.S. Food and Drug Act that effectively blacklisted cocaine via including it on a list of ingredients that had to be labeled, though not including the other popularly used stimulants of caffeine and nicotine. 1907: Vin Mariani for the U.S. market deleted the cocaine, adding a rear side label- see below.  I don't yet have information if they continued to provide the regular version as an alternative. GUARANTEED BY MARIANI & Co. UNDER THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT JUNE 30, 1906; SERIAL No. 448 VIN MARIANI [MARIANI WINE] 17 PER CENT ALCOHOL BY VOLUME AN IMPORTED FRENCH BORDEAUX WINE WITH A SPECIAL  PROCESSING OF LEAVES OF ERYTHROXYLON COCA PREPARED AND BOTTLED AT OUR NEW YORK FACILITY  MARIANI AND COMPANY PARIS, FRANCE: 41 Boulevard Haussman.   NEW YORK: 52 West 15th Street   "THE STANDARD OF MARIANI PREPARATION...

A Brief History of Cocaine - Steven B. Karch pp 100-102 If our drug policies appear convoluted today, think how they must have looked to the owners of the Coca-Cola Company just after the turn of the century.  In 1911, company officials found themselves in federal court, charged with, among other things, not putting cocaine in Coca- Cola.  Popular histories of this period usually lump Coca-Cola with the [sic] other quack nostrums [sic- a nostrum is simply a medicated liquid meant to be take orally], often suggesting that the problem of cocaine abuse in America was, in some way, connected to the successes of the Coca-Cola Company.  Except for the titillation factor, the idea has little to recommend it.  Even when Coca-Cola contained cocaine, the amounts were trivial; too small to produce measurable physiological or behavioral changes.  Coca-Cola was not responsible for America's cocaine problem, but government harassment of the Atlanta soft drink maker did mark ...

Angelo Francois Mariani died April 1, 1914 , yet his product existed for some time afterwards. This is the first Vin Mariani item that I've seen that appears to be post 1914- date unknown This has an address of 10 rue de Chartres - Neully.

From Figures Contemporaines Tires de L'Album Mariani 1902

Angelo Francois Mariani b. December 17, 1838 - d. April 1, 1914 http://alcoholanddrugshistorysociety.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/shad-23-1-smith1.pdf Perhaps the best way to explain Mariani’s success, however, is the examination of Mariani and Company’s promotional materials and published consumer responses in the United States from 1886 to 1910. It seems clear that Mariani’s wine, and its many imitators, were quite popular in the United States during these years. Actual business records of the company do not seem to exist, but at least one unique source exists: The Efficacy of Coca Erythroxylon: Notes and Comments by Prominent Physicians , a Mariani pamphlet published in 1888 and apparently distributed as promotional material. Its contents include published letters from numerous doctors across the United States praising Mariani wine. 24 Of course, this data is not as reliable as say, sales figures, and certainly there could be letters received by the company that were unpublished. How...