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FRIDAY NIGHT AUCTION

The Friday night auction is an institution at the Midwest Miniature Bottle Club Show. Fittingly
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the 40 anniversary show saw a record turnout for the buffet meal and auction. Prices were
generally quite high. A few bottles were ‘bought back’ (the seller would not sell at the top bid
price) but most of those were unrealistic expectations in today’s market for minis. All prices
in US$.

I am going to show you pictures of all the bottles I found interesting, although, due to the
socialising going on, I did not get the hammer price of some of them. I bid on a few but my
only purchase was the two ships. Two prices I noted but did not photograph (look them up
on Miniature Bottle Library) were the 200ml Gautier Cognac at $220 and a Jannot gold globe
at $200 – a very high price for this.

The blown glass Gondola is
from Zamperoni of Italy -
$100. The Octopus is also
Italian, from Giori this time,
although many of these Italian
blown glass bottles are filled
by different distilleries - $40.
The blown glass flask has a
bat in it. This bottle is from
Transilvania (Romania). It sold
for what I thought was a high
price of $60.

The two ships sold for $60
each. They are number two
and three in a series issued by
Damen Shipyards, Gorinchem,
Holland. The bottles were
made by Royal Goedewaagen
and are filled with 50ml of gin.

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