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Historical figures #1N

shakespeare

I am intending this to be the first of a series, although maybe not a very long series
as few historical figures have had more than a handful of miniatures made in their
image. This article is in both the NZMBC & MMBC newsletters but future articles will
be different in each. Join both if you want to read them all.

We start the series with William Shakespeare, ‘The Bard of Avon’ or ‘The Immortal
bard’ as he is often known. Few, if any of you, will not know
who Shakespeare is, so a brief biography is all that is needed.

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, actor and
poet, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the
English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He
lived from 1564 until 1616, all, or almost all of it, in Stratford
upon Avon, although he travelled extensively throughout
England with his acting troop. He had a wife (Anne Hathaway)
and three children. He wrote 39 plays (some in collaboration
with others), 154 sonnets and various other poems etc. His
plays are still being performed, every day, all around the
world.

The jug is a Lindisfarne one from England (see miNiZ112)
and contains Mead. The head and two busts are all from
McLech, also from England. You can see that one
contains Sherry and it is likely they all do, although McLech also fills many of it’s
miniatures with Clan Tartan Scotch.

That’s it for pictures of Shakespeare on mini bottles, although if you have another, I
would love to be proved wrong. On the next page we have a number of bottles
associated with Shakespeare, although not bearing his image.

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