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Another couple of show pictures for you. The gentleman on the right is a Spanish collector,
Ruben Omar Cammarata (and his wife) who has over 42,000 minis! Incidentally, he only
has the second largest collection in Spain as there is another collector with over 60,000!

Following the show I bought a 45 litre Esky (cooler), carefully packed my purchases and
posted them to NZ. Normally I get no damage or one breakage but this time the Esky had
clearly been badly thrown around. I had 10 breakages, although I have been able to glue
back together 9 of them (not the same but better than nothing). The one bottle totally
destroyed was one of the Manchester United flasks but the label was OK. I was able to
transfer this to the one duplicate bottle, so I am still only missing the Matt Busby bottle –
anyone got one for sale?. As an aside, last weekend I had one of my top cabinets in my
bottle room open and, due to a slip on my part, about 50 bottles, mainly ceramic, fell 6 to 7
feet onto the floor. Bottles are stronger than you think as only 8 broke (2 repairable).
Unfortunately one of those is probably irreplaceable.

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