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Pope Giovani (John) XXIII, Benito Mussolini, Napoleon, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Tung

I don’t know why Chopin & Mascagni
are a different shape, although I
suspect that these were ‘bought in’
and the others made in the in-house
pottery. If I am right then Elvio has
sold the in-house made bottles to
other liquor companies. Some of
them have been reported with labels
from Borghini, La Reggia, Sassano e
Paganini & Zamperoni. Two of these
have a bottle, Enrico Berlinguer, that
I have not seen with an Old Store
label, although I suspect that it
exists.

There are a number of known variations with these Old Store Bust bottles – see Miniature
Bottle Library for these.

I’ll bring you some more Old Store bottles in miNiZ 116.

------------------------------------------- David Smith

OLD GLASS

Max Trout came from a family of
German glass blowers. In 1919, at
only 19, he founded his own
workshop making hand-blown glass
articles. His original market was
perfume bottles but many of you will
recognise bottles used by
Manhattan and others. In the case
of Manhattan these were issued
during the prohibition era and
contained non-alcoholic cordial.

I believe these pages are from a
post WW2 catalogue. The first thing
many of these companies did after
WW2 was get catalogues out and
they were invariably full of pre- war
designs. Before the war they didn't
need catalogues as they used trade
fairs and distributors to promote and
sell items.

Dominic Pennock & David Smith

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