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new new zealand, this & that

I have only a couple of New New Zealanders to show you in this
edition. Both were found by Erica Mulder. The first is, of course,
the Broken Heart Gin. This was made by Broken Heart Spirits of
Queensland. The second is an NZ import bottle from Lithuania,
Ozone Crispy Hemp Vodka.

Talking of Erica Mulder, she sent me a couple of
Tradme auction results that I forgot to include in
the Auction Report. Both are in the ‘surely
people are not that stupid’ category. Like Ebay in
most of the world now, Trademe does not allow
the sale of full bottles. Why would anyone pay
$20 for an empty House of Lords Gin? Wilsons
Whisky 'DISCOVER THE SPIRIT OF NEW
ZEALAND' 3 Pack Display of Miniatures said the
listing. Excellent Condition Bottles are
now empty. Start price $100.00, Buy
Now $110.00. Not surprising it didn’t
sell but it was relisted; Start price
$75.00, no surprise, once again it didn’t
sell. By the way, this set was originally
purchased, full, from Erica & Peter’s website – for far less
than $110 of course! http://www.westiewhisky.com/

Member Jim Crawford
shooter@fuse.net posted this
bottle on Facebook and asked if
anybody knows what country it is
from. Can you help? I can say
for certain that the writing
bottom left is the number
94232 in Arabic, however, a
number of languages use what
is basically Arabic Script. The
D tells me this bottle was made
for the French market, among
other countries that is could
also have been sold in. This
was answered before I
finalised miNiZ – Lebanon.

With my Miniature Bottle Library hat on I get sent
photographs of bottles new and old, some good
photos, some terrible, and the occasional surprise. One of those is above. The White &
Mackay bottle in a matchbox was made by Cumbrae Supply. It is not rare but at, maybe, 40
years old, the condition is exceptional. It could have come out of the factory yesterday.

I also spend a bit of time on-line looking for new/old/unusual mini photos for MBL. A few are

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