"private stock" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1869, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Burlesques:",
          "text": "[T]o feed 126 souls, we had but . . .\nThree ham-sandwiches, and a pot of currant-jelly, and 197 bottles\nof brandy, rum, madeira, pale ale (my private stock) . . .",
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          "ref": "1906, Andy Adams, “Seigerman's Per Cent”, in Cattle Brands:",
          "text": "The refreshment was brought in, and before the session adjourned, they had lowered the contents of a black bottle of private stock by several fingers.",
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          "ref": "1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in The Adventures of Sally:",
          "text": "\"And after all I've done for her,\" said Mr. Reginald Cracknell, his voice tremulous with self-pity and his eyes moist with the combined effects of anguish and over-indulgence in his celebrated private stock, \"after all I've done for her she throws me down.\"",
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          "ref": "1989 March 12, Christopher Idone, “Food: Club Comfort”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-01-21:",
          "text": "And it is heartening to be able to find a good and heady mutton chop to accompany a club member's claret from his private stock.",
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          "text": "2004, Robert Priest, How to Swallow a Pig, →ISBN, (Google preivew)\"\nThen he takes out a bottle of his own private stock, finds himself a flower or some butterflies, and proceeds to get very drunk."
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          "ref": "2011, F. Paul Pacult, American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's #1 Bourbon, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Booker employed his private stock as a late afternoon delight for visitors to the Boston distillery.",
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        "A supply of something, especially alcoholic beverages, belonging to a person or a commercial establishment and of such quality that it is usually reserved for the owner or for favoured friends or customers."
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          "text": "The refreshment was brought in, and before the session adjourned, they had lowered the contents of a black bottle of private stock by several fingers.",
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