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them. They were not even on Miniature Bottle Library (they are now
- editor). There is no maker on these but they do say that they
contain Bourbon Whiskey and that the bottles were designed by
Eric Olsen in 1968. I would have expected these to have sold for a
lot more than US$22.00

I love football (soccer to you Yanks and many New Zealanders) so here are some great football
minis. The set of three Old St. Andrews balls were made for the World Cup in the USA in 1994.
Sets of three balls were also made for the world cups in France and Korea/Japan. These three
sold for US$29.90. The Vlahov goal keeper was made for the 1960 Rome Olympics and is one of a
set of six depicting different sports. Interestingly fakes were made of these bottles (see MBL). The
goalie sold for a huge US$103.61

Two nice straights to finish with, both said to be
empty! Old Farm is a 1935 rye whiskey from
Overholt, now part of Beam Inc. US$31 seemed
cheap. The Mitchell's Shamrock Irish Whiskey is a
1937 bottle. A very disappointing US$20.60 bought
it. These bottles both have tax stamps on showing
the date but most tax stamps do not show a date. If
you can see a tax stamp you may be able to date
the bottle using the information on the club web site.

Peter Bonkovich

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