Schofield wrote about Hobart dealer Warwick Oakman spotting a curious glass bottle among bric-a-brac and buying it for $50, selling to another Hobart dealer for $190, who sold it to a client for $900.

This woman knew a thing or two about curious glass bottles, and she sent it to an auction in the US ... where it fetched $US56,000.

My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke dropped in at the new coffee house in Battery Point, where he heard people chortling about Leo Schofield’s recent story in The Bulletin about dealers who get done ... well ... who just don’t see what they’ve got ...