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as seen on ebay #29

We will start this article with a touch of the stupidity you see on Ebay every
day. Ron Gabbard is very good at spotting these and showing them up in the
Northwest Miniature Bottle Club newsletter but this one was found by Peter,
who writes: “This 50ml Bundaberg rum is EMPTY and had an asking price
A$300.00 or nearest offer. The auction had 11 offers, all of which I would
suspect were a lot less than the asking price.” It is unlikely but there is just a
possibility that Peter could be wrong. There are some fanatical ‘Bundy’ bottle
collectors in Australia and the only other photo I have ever seen of this
variation was one I took myself in the Bundaberg Distillery Museum.

Another silly asking price on
Australian Ebay was the Long John matchbox bottle.
Needless to say at A$130 it did not sell. Pity as both of
us would be happy to sell our micros at $130 each (in my
case that’s 3750 x $130 = $487,500, so, offers over ¼
million please in whatever dollars you please - David)

Sticking with Scotch we have two more expensive
ones but in the case of these, probably justifiably
so. The Glen Rossie was almost certainly bottled
for the Italian market. For a number of years these
seals (siglios) were compulsory. All siglio bottles
are very collectable in Italy and the asking price of
€60 was on the cheap side. This Glenfarclas 50ml
th
decanter was made for the 50 anniversary of the
coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.
Surprisingly it sold for the minimum bid, although this was £600. We wonder how
many of these were actually drunk!

House/building bottles are some of my (David)
favorites and this is one that I have not seen
before. I was put-off from bidding for it by the US$40 postal
charge. However it did receive 15 bids to get to US$27. These
funny little dry stone built houses (Trulli) are found in south east
Italy (think top of the heel) and show the North African influence
on that area. The town of Alberobello
has hundreds of them and, as I found
three years ago, is a great town for
finding miniatures. But not this one –
DRAT! The seller says that it dates
from the 1970’s but I am doubtful that
it is that old.

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