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 …

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.