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G’day from Oz!

My name is Jo and I’m a 27yr old collector from across the Tasman. People ask how I got into collecting miniatures,
but truth be told I was born into it. My father started collecting not long after he arrived in Australia from Poland in
around 1983 and he has always been on the hunt for bottles to add to his collection. Unlike a lot of collectors I have
come across that seem to ‘specialise’ their collections, dad was always happy to buy any bottle as long as it was a
miniature, contained alcohol and was not already in his collection; I am very much the same.
It all started with a couple of small bottles that caught dads’ eye at the local bottle shop (trust me I tried to work out
what the original one was, but we couldn’t find the photos to jolt dad’s memory). Then he met mum and she quickly
worked out what made him tick. In exchange for him teaching her how to drive (there’s a 7 year age difference),
mum bought him a bottle for each lesson. This became the first set within his collection, all be it a not yet complete
set.

Advokaat Cherry Advokaat
50ml 50ml
18% 18%

Cherry Brandy Coffee Liqueur
50ml 50ml
25.8%

Crème de Cacao Crème de
50ml Menthe
25.3% 50ml
25.8%

Curacao One thing I have quickly discovered about
50ml trying to research especially older bottles, is
28.5% that information can be quite tricky to find.
When you have a company such as Vok, that
has evolved from Jan Vok Liqueur Co (early
1930’s) to Vok Beverages (est. 2002), finding
original information seems harder again. I did
though find a great little article written by Jim
Crawford in Issue 101 Winter 2013, definitely
worth having a look.

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