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The cover bottle was made in Mexico for the US market but, as you can see, was imported into New
Zealand. It is available from The Mill for $9.99 - cheaper than in the US. I bought one of these at the
St. Louis show (for US$10) and then saw them on sale in Las Vegas for between US$12 and US$17.
The Mill also imported the three glass skulls, also containing Tequila, so maybe things are looking up
a bit here.

On the subject of the St. Louis show, this was, as usual, successful but maybe not as good as the
organisers had hoped. There was so much demand for tables that they had a larger room this year.
However, a number of people who had booked tables failed to turn up, so the number of tables
actually filled was about the same as other years. Needless to say I picked up quite a lot of bottles,
most of them at very good prices (from a buyer's point of view). I'll share a few with you.

I bought the set of three ceramic books at the Friday night auction - and paid too
much! I paid $120 on the Friday but another set was on sale on Saturday at the
show proper for US$60 - you can't win 'em all (see another instance of this
below). These books were made for a meeting of the Spanish mini bottle club
and I would rate them by far the best club bottles ever made.

Fernando Saetonne from Peru had plenty
of new bottles to show/sell. The 2003
Hummer H-2 is one of 20 new car bottles
filled with Royal Highness Scotch. The
building is one of a set of three building
bottles from Barcelona, via Peru. The
buildings were all designed by Antoni
Gaudi. The bottles contain Vieja Ciuda
Pisco. Fernando sells most of his bottles
on line:
http://miniaturasdelperu.com/main.html Postage is not cheap
but, hey, where else can you currently buy such great bottles.

The hawk is one I have not seen before. It
is from Cumbrae Supply and contains 50ml
of Scotch. Another seller came up to me at
the show with a 50ml eagle from
Rutherford, wanting to know what it was
worth. This looked rather like the
Beneagles eagle but was clearly different. I
gave some advice but was tied up with
something else. By the time I found the
lady again she had sold the bottle and
couldn't remember who to. Hence no
picture. If you bought this bottle PLEASE
send me a picture for MBL. The leprechaun with his pot of gold is from Ireland and
is clearly a mini but does anyone know who made it? I bought the bottle with the
horse in it at the show, and then won one. It is beautifully made by Casino of
Mexico, better known by the name La Magdalena. If anyone wants this duplicate
please make me an offer.

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