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to updating it at some point later this year.

The football scandal just broke a few days ago
(as I write this) and the FIFA Under 20 World
Cup starts in Auckland later today, so it is
topical to show you a new bottle depicting the
World Cup (Jules Remy Trophy). This is from
Peru and is filled with Old Times Scotch. As far
as I am aware the only other depiction of this
in miniature are two bottles made by McLech
which contain Kindness Scotch.

We may as well stick with football. Last year I
had a bit of a slip-up in my bottle room and
broke the Beneagles England bottle shown
below (Scotland bounced without damage!).
These are as rare as hens’ teeth among collectors and I never expected to replace
it. The three turned up at the Midwest Show this year and, of course, I grabbed them with both
hands.

I found the 5 Hawiian Tikis for
sale on one of the Kolektado
sites. They are the first
ceramics I know about made by
Hungarian company Merripit,
who are well known for their
great blown glass bottles. There
are some of the latter for sale
there too.

All contain 50ml at 40%. The blue is filled with Jack Daniels, the grey is filled with Jim Beam, the next
3 are Scotch, Grants (green), Johnnie Walker (mid-brown) and Balantines (dark brown).

For no better
reason than I had
a space to fill!
Some matchbox
Scotches from
Cumbrae Supply.

David Smith

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