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The day the bottom dropped out of the antique absinthe spoon market:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1069674293

By Rimbaud on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 07:49 pm: Edit

Looks like someone re-used an old Sebor bottle to store their olive oil in. Yeeeeech!!!!

~Moi

By _Blackjack on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 09:18 am: Edit

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ABSINTHE AUCTION QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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By Chevalier on Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 06:31 am: Edit

Once upon a time, there was an Absinthe Drinkers' Academy ...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1525657036

First, there was Boris Yeltsin Vodka (made in France!); now, there's Havel (as in Vaclav) Absinthe, which looks like olive oil.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1714948508

By Chevalier on Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 03:11 pm: Edit

I want to believe that the auction's humor is unintentional.

By Verawench on Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 03:08 pm: Edit

"This magical healing potion was cast as the root of dementia, criminality, degeneracy and tuberculosis."

What the hell are they smoking?

By Verawench on Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 03:05 pm: Edit

"handled holder"

helter skelter!

By Chevalier on Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 02:59 pm: Edit

ABSINTHE AUCTION QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

"[Absinthe] was deemed responsible for murder and Toulouse Lautrec."

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1082717946

By Absinthedrinker on Monday, March 11, 2002 - 11:11 am: Edit

If you are thinking of bidding on these make sure that they still have the original absinthe labels in them. Each volume had one or more labels enclosed, but these were often removed and sold seperately. Missing labels reduces the value.

By Oxygenee on Monday, March 11, 2002 - 07:43 am: Edit

Madame Delahaye's "L'absinthe" journals are an extremely useful reference source. Until the publication of her most recent two books they were absolutely indispensible - they're less essential now, but still contain lots of information not easily accessible elsewhere. There were only 500 copies each of the first issues printed, so complete sets like this one turn up only occasionally.

By Chevalier on Monday, March 11, 2002 - 07:01 am: Edit

Have a Delahaye day!

Petermarc, Oxygenée, anybody: Do you find these of interest?

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1082023752

By Chevalier on Friday, March 08, 2002 - 03:26 pm: Edit

In Tarzan French, you could write:

"Mais non, mon chou-chou. Faux. Pas absinthe. Affreuse. Quel dommage! Bisoux, le Timk"

(Actually, please don't!)