Hi Folks, Not far from Melbourne, Victoria the Gippsland Antique Bottles & Collectables Club Inc. is hosting the "World's Finest Display of Antique Australian & New Zealand Bitters Bottles", at Kernot Hall, Morwell, Victoria on 28 & 29 November 2015. There has never been an Australian Bitters bottles display anywhere near the magnitude of this one. The collection has never been on public display previously & it will probably never be shown publicly again. Many Australian Bitters bottles are very rare and some are only known by one or two complete examples. Many bear American names such as Frisco, Philadelphia, Utica, Boston, St. Louis, New York and Milwaukee. These names seem to have been used to lure the public into thinking that the product was indeed American as America had a reputation for superior bitters at the time. Most of these bottles date from around the 1870-80s. They were popular with the stage coach drivers, many of whom were American. The stage coaches opened up outback Australia to "speedy" travel as Australia lacked railways to many inland towns until later on. Many of these rare bottles were found at the inns and horse change stations along the stage coach routes in the outback. As with your beautiful American Bitters bottles, many of the Australian Bitters bottles are found in a range of colours. Semi-cabin shaped bottles predominate. If you collect Bitters bottles & you have ever contemplated a trip "Down Under" to the land of the Kangaroo, why not bite the bullet & hop over? The $ exchange rate is heavily in your favour at present, & you'd be made most welcome over here. Do it!