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carnival

I have had the first four Carnival bottles for over 30 years. The only other place I have seen these is
on Carlos Lopez's (Carlpeto) site, http://www.figuralminibottles.net/ They were made by Luxardo and
are of well known Italian Carnival Characters, Balanzone, Pulchinella, Arlecchino and Gianduia.

These same characters feature on
bottles by other companies.

On the right we have Balanzone and Gianduia. These
were made by Niccolo, who also made a Pulchinella and
presumably a Arlecchino. The next two were made by Old Store. They are Pulchinella & Arlecchino.
Again, there are almost certainly a set of four as I have seen a picture of an Old Store Balanzone.

Zamperoni made our
next Carnival
Character. I know
nothing more about this
bottle but it may be
another Pulchinella as
he has a lute.

The final photo on this page is a Marchi ceramic (see article elsewhere in
this edition) and has been filled by at least four companies, Benedetti,
Barfede, Linfa Salus and the one shown, Todisco. Again he probably
represents Pulchinella.

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