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Firstly some minor corrections from miNiz101 Special Edition.

1. Barfede also used the 4 Marchi ceramic cars. Both Barfede and Drioli used the
cannon. 2. As I suspected, there is a bottle from a Chinese Province starting with X -
this is shown on the right. This ceramic bottle was made by Coca Cola for the 2000
Olympics and is one of 34 Chinese Provinces, in this case Xin Jiang. 3. David Spaid
tells me that the French Policeman, page 52, is a large bottle that was never made in
mini.

We have so many articles that did not make it into 101 that I am not going to do an
'As Seen on Ebay' article in this edition. However I do have a few sales that I want to
share with you.

Firstly three of the Air New Zealand building bottles have been sold on Ebay. The three are all the
club variation with 'Port Nicholson Scotch' on the bottom. Adamson & Son Outfitters sold for
US$56.00, 56 Marine Parade sold for US$27.60 and Brown & Kerr sold for US$27.90.

I like 'novelty bottles' and have a number of these wooden bottles with dice in. I have an article on
'novelty bottles' that was originally written for issue101 that will appear in a future miNiZ, but these
three were found recently by Peter Bonkovich.
The two Whyte &
McKay bottles did
not sell for as much
as this type of bottle
usually does, the
first fetching £8.49
and the second a
minimum bid of
£14.99. The
Barclay's Beer (a
London brewery)
sold for what I would
consider a more
typical price for
these bottles,
£42.01.

Also found by Peter is the Scottish Dagger, correctly called a
Skean Dhu - not a bayonet as it was sold as! This probably
affected the price as US$19 is rather low for one of these.

Erica Mulder found the super
valuable (yeh, right!) Otago Rugby
Jug on Trademe - with a minimum
bid of $1000. Needless to say it did
not sell. It has been re-listed so go-
for-it! Incidentally, in this condition, I
would expect a price of about $25.

In miNiZ99 I showed you three
super-rare caricature animals from
Famous Firsts. Most of this set has now appeared on Ebay and can be
seen on MBL at: http://www.minibottlelibrary.com/mbl/alpha/famous-
firsts/index.html

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