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as seen on ebay #27

Yes, there are still minis for sale on Ebay. Mainly figurals I must admit but there are some
nominally empty straights for sale from North America and Ebay still sells straights on the French
and some other European Ebay sites. Make sure that you search worldwide.

The first 5 bottles I have to show you should be familiar to you
all. They are 5 of the Air New Zealand set of 11 NZ buildings
given away in the 1980's. These sold for, in order, US$27.60,
US$27.90, US$42.65, US$56 and US$100 for Ponsonby Fire
Station.

The Alta football is from the 1930's and contains California
Sherry - US$23.40 was a good price for the seller. Next are
two very different bottles from Famous Firsts. The Sewing
Machine is one of their more common minis and this was
reflected in the price, US$10.51 One of their rarest is the
Elephant Mother and Calf caricature. This is part of a set and
we have shown you a number of other in miNiZ over the last
year. All came from the same seller. US$41 was a fair price.

Next we have two ceramics
from French company,
Garnier, although the
containers were made by
Marchi Ceramics in Italy (see
miNiZ100 Special Edition).
The Queen of Hearts Card
was made in 1971 and is one
of a set of 6 (Jack/Queen/King
of hearts and clubs) but note
that there are actually two
sets, one with a red back and one a blue. It is rare for the seller to tell you which colour back it has
but this seller has had the sense to do so (this one is blue). It sold for US$14.10. The fish is also
from a set of six, each one named, this one being a Cichlid. These were made in 1974. I'm sure
the seller was very pleased with the sale price of US$31.99

The green couple were bottles I had never seen before and I could not find out anything about

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