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have not seen in colour before.

The Walrus and Buffalo are, of course, two more from the set of 13 animals by
Famous Firsts. I can't tell you how much any of these three sold for as the
auctions had not finished when this edition was published. The original sale
price of the Walrus is readable, US$10.23 - I bet it sells for a lot more than
that. The Collectors Art Meadowlark has a Cologne label. This was made with
bourbon in it also but I have so far been unable to find a colour picture for MBL.

I get an email every now and again
from Tan Hoai Nam (aka Vincent Tan)
who runs a Vietnam based store selling
miniature bottles, most of them from
China:
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Vietnam-
Minibottles-shop Not cheap, and be
careful of the postage cost, but he sells
bottles you will not see elsewhere. The
Saxaphone and Chinese Dragon are two
fine examples of the sort of minis he
sells. They are from a Chinese company
called Fardeas (sometimes spelt
Fadeas) and each contains 100ml of brandy. Notice the distinctive watermark. I
have shown you bottles with this before but without saying where they came
from. Another 18 Fardeas bottles can be seen on MBL:
http://www.minibottlelibrary.com/mbl/alpha/fardeas/index.html

The next issue is miNiZ100. I would like to do a special edition of 100
pages (email edition only) - so get writing. YES, THAT DOES MEAN YOU!

There is only one new member this time that I am aware of, Mike Olsen, and he
has even sent an article - HINT to most of the rest of you.

Mike Olson, 309 Knopp Valley Dr., Winona, MN 55987, USA E-Mail: melosminis@charter.net

David Smith