HansHolt
Elephant bottle cork
Canon EOS 6D - f/8 - 1/80sec - 100mm - ISO 500
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays,
theme: Bottle cap
- When I was a schoolboy of about 15 years, I earned some money with vacation jobs. One of those was at a wine bottling company (Siebrand in the city of Kampen) where I had to remove all the wine corks from the empty returned bottles.
These bottles origined from many different factories, and many corks had an attractive appearance. I did collect a few hundred of those, and I did keep them for almost 60 years now. Why? Probably hoping once I will make a fortune by selling them to a 'wine cork collectioner' (do those exist ?).
- See pictures in the first comment !!
- Olifant jenever (gin)
In 1841 a family named Melchers started a jenever factory in the very heart of Dutch jenever production: Schiedam.
They exported their jenever to Dutch colonies in West and South Africa. To distinguish their product from other jenevers they did chose a logo that would be easy to recognise in that continent: an Elephant !
Elephant bottle cork
Canon EOS 6D - f/8 - 1/80sec - 100mm - ISO 500
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays,
theme: Bottle cap
- When I was a schoolboy of about 15 years, I earned some money with vacation jobs. One of those was at a wine bottling company (Siebrand in the city of Kampen) where I had to remove all the wine corks from the empty returned bottles.
These bottles origined from many different factories, and many corks had an attractive appearance. I did collect a few hundred of those, and I did keep them for almost 60 years now. Why? Probably hoping once I will make a fortune by selling them to a 'wine cork collectioner' (do those exist ?).
- See pictures in the first comment !!
- Olifant jenever (gin)
In 1841 a family named Melchers started a jenever factory in the very heart of Dutch jenever production: Schiedam.
They exported their jenever to Dutch colonies in West and South Africa. To distinguish their product from other jenevers they did chose a logo that would be easy to recognise in that continent: an Elephant !