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Not exactly PC! By-the-way, the bottle contains rose wine.

The shoe on the right was formerly in Adrian Carr’s collection. The bottle
is from Guillot of France and, I suspect, is from the 1920’s or 30’s. It is
filled with Apricot Brandy.

Below we have three blown and drawn glass bottles from the former
Soviet Union. The first two are from Map Company of Armenia. These
st
contain Samvel 1 5* Armenian Brandy. Both are 40%, 0.1 litre. The
third one is from the Ukraine and, I am sure you will agree, this is a real
gem. It contains Ukrainian Cognac (brandy).

The two bottles on the left are
both from the same general
area. On the far left we have a
bottle in a wooden shoe from
Takovo, a company from the
former Yugoslavia. I know of a
number of variations of these
and I suspect the bottle is
interchangeable. The
elaborately carved wooden shoe is from Badel of Croatia, part of the former Yugoslavia. Again,
the bottle is interchangeable.

The two bottles on the right look more like slippers than
shoes to me. The first one is from Campeny of Spain
and the second from Scheibel of Germany. I suspect
that there are many variations of both of these.

And so onto clogs. All
of these are from
Holland. On this page
we have a ceramic (I
think) clog with a
bottle in it from
Hooghout.

Starting the next page we have three clogs from Rynbende.
The first is an older label delft version with US import labels.
The middle one is probably the most common Rynbende

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