Ti-toki Liqueur Bottles
What's the story? (Photo courtesy of Warren Roberts) On the last weekend of September, I attended the 46th Annual Bottle Show at Hamilton. It was fantastic and I highly recommend that you go along next time it's in your part of town. Oh yes, did I mention the Kiwi Auctions were there, and the sales tables of antiques and collectibles too? I had a wonderful chat with a couple of guys who'd set up the Ti-toki Liqueur bottle display. I certainly learnt a lot from chatting with them. I'm bummed I didn't get their names. Hopefully they'll see my post and get in touch with me. Glass Ti-toki bottle used in the mid 1970s It was in the late 1970s Diane Balich, managing director of wine company based in Swanson, contacted Orzel Industries about commissioning them to make a tekoteko crock for their Ti-toki liqueur. Up until then they'd been using a bulbous shaped glass bottle. The photo above is an empty bottle I rescued from my parent's house when I was a child. ...