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is, of course, from Scotland. We could not get much further away from the Masthead in price as this
sold for £565 despite it having no box.

Above are four bottles that are not bottles, if you know what we mean. I (David) collect items like this
and in fact have the first of these. This is a corkscrew from the period 1890-1910 and there are
dozens of these. (You unscrew it just above the label, the screw swings out, and you then screw the
bottle back together to act as a handle). These corkscrews in the shape of mini bottles, and mainly
labelled like a drink mini, are very collectable in their own right. I have a number of these, including a
different Dewars that I have never seen listed anywhere on the internet. However, this is probably the
second most common of these (the most common is one of the two variations of Budweiser) and the
sale price of £33.33 reflects this.

Dating from around the same time is the J G Stewart Scotch Whisky Cigar Cutter mini. £18.00
seemed cheap to us but we are not experts in this area. The Thorne's Whisky mini is, we think, a

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