 Liquor bottled by the state dispensary was the only liquor to be sold legally in South Carolina.From 1893 to 1900 the bottles used by the dispensary had an embossed design featuring a palmetto tree with crossed logs under the base of the trunk, and from 1900-1907 an overlaying and intertwining S, C and D "script" design replaced the tree design.This was largely because prohibitionists objected to having such a prominent state symbol as the palmetto tree embossed on liquor bottles.