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Maduro travel

I forgot to include these in miNiZ118. Collector, Diederik Hemmes, who specialises
in building minis, sent me these photos in February. Diederik wrote “I don’t know how
old these are. They are bottles made for Maduro Travel by Dutch Antilles Ceramic
and filled by Senior with Curacao liqueur. Of the 15, 13 are country houses. Some
actually were plantation houses. But on Curacao you should not expect too much
since whatever plantations were there were small. Nothing compared to the big
plantations in the south in the US. The other 2 are city houses in the rich folks
neighbourhood. I don’t know whether the series is complete. I have seen
occasionally a single house for sale, but I was able to get my hands on this collection
of 15.” All contain Senior Curacao, 120cc, 62 proof, 31%

I contacted Maduro Travel but nobody there
now knows anything about these bottles. They
referred me to Senior from whom, despite
several emails, I never got a reply. I did find one
of these on-line and it is a colour variation, so
there may be more.

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