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MELOS MINIS #1

Hi all, I'm Mike Olson and as a new member of the club I thought I would share
some of my favourite bottles with you. I collect American and some Canadian
whiskeys in straight glass. As almost everybody I started out collecting
everything but soon decided to specialise in whiskey. I like most other bottles
but didn't have the room to keep them. I was never into ceramics, but my wife
talked me into buying them. Big waste of money in my opinion. I soon dumped
my scotches when I realized the magnitude of the numbers. My god, where do
they all come from?

I am sure you are all familiar whiskeys, so let's get to the
bottles. The three I am showing today are known as
California Whiskeys. This means they were produced in the
state of California during the 1930's. Most of these were
only sold locally and are extremely rare.

Bottle number one is Lucky 7
Straight Whiskey from the Distiller
Distributing Corp of Los Angeles
and San Francisco, as are the next
two. Bottle number two is Red
Robin Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
This is my favourite California
bottle and would be a toss-up with
Lionel's Buccaneer as my all time
favourite bottle. Last but not least is Green Meadows
Straight Kentucky Bourbon whiskey with a great multi
coloured label.

Finally, I have just retired so I
have been spending time reading
the publications and looking at other collections. Some of
them really boggle the mind with sheer number of bottles.
I have a niche collection with somewhere around 4000 or
so bottles which is just about all I can keep track of.

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Until next time . . . . MELO . . . .

(Mike wrote Melos Minis for Miniature Bottle Collector for many years - Editor)