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I have ten new Absinthes to show you. The set of five Green Fairy on the last page are
from the Czech Republic. Below we have a set of three Exitus Hardcore Absinthes from
Germany followed by NS and Mari Mayans Absinthes from Spain.

And that’s it for now, as always, more next time…….

David Spaid

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KLM 98

KLM 98 was made to commemorate KLM’s long history with Dutch made
Fokker aircraft. KLM made it’s last flight in a Fokker in October 2017,
which was the same month this house was released.

The house is Kleine Houtweg No. 65 in Haarlem, where Anthony Fokker
spent his youth from the age of four. His parents had returned to the
Netherlands from the Dutch East Indies with little “Tony” and his sister
Toos. The stately mansion was then located at Kleine Houtweg No. 41,
which changed to No. 65 when the street numbering was altered in 1935.

The attic at the front, with a window overlooking the park, became
Anthony’s domain. It was from here that he launched his earliest self-made model planes, using paperclips
to improve the aerodynamics. In the 1920s Fokker became one of the world’s leading aircraft manufacturers,
with factories in the Netherlands and the US.

If you’re visiting Amsterdam you can now take a walk along the KLM Miniatures Route, which leads past
more than 50 houses in the collection, including several special editions.

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