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a mini as it is 180ml, however it is
no bigger than many minis. The
bottle is leather covered glass. The
Skull is not old or rare but is one of
a set of 8 I bought at the Friday
night MMBC auction at the St.
Louis show. I thought that these
came from the Czech Republic but
they were actually made by
Campeny of Spain. This one has
Blue Vodka in it but each of them
has a different spirit and different
jewel – see the full set on MBL.

When I was at David Spaid’s
house he showed me the bottle
on the left. This is an extremely
rare French bottle from a
company called Lassauvejeu.
See MBL for three more, equally
rare.

Whilst ‘on the road’ I did a lot of
tidying/remedial work on MBL (I
still have the Themes Indexes to
tidy up – they are a mess!).
This included numerous
emails to and from
collectors who were helping. One directory to be tidied up was
KLM. The Waag Building in Alkmaar, The Netherlands was listed
as a KLM. My correspondent insisted that this building was never
issued by KLM and never filled. He was half right, it was not a
KLM ‘special’ but it was issued, and filled, by De Vreng of
Amsterdam.

Member (and Spanish Club President)
Luis Campos sent me the photo of the
three Rock ‘n Roll Guitars. I saw two of
these for sale in Las Vegas but did not buy
them as we were completely out of our
luggage allowance. Such is life!

David Smith

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