(2) Mid Century Sealed Bols Liqueur Ballerina Bottles. Tiny ballet dancers are positioned in the middle of the bottom of the bottles, an eye-catching feature immersed in dark-colored liquids. Labels are faded, but intact. These pieces were made between the 1950s and mid 1970s, a period when distilleries began experimenting with unique designs to attract new customers amid a liquor market collapse. 

Largest Size: 9 1/2 x 5 in. 

Lucas Bols N.V. is a Dutch company founded in 1575 in Amsterdam, making it one of the oldest still-functioning distillery brands in the world. Lucas, born in 1652, established a dynasty that nearly disintegrated as his wealthy descendants grew less and less interested in the day-to-day minutiae of running the distillery, and the last male heir, Herman Bols, died in 1813, which resulted in the company being sold to Rotterdam financier Gabriel Theodorus van’t Wout a couple of years later. He expanded the company portfolio dramatically before selling it off to the Moltzer family in 1868, who reorganized it into an LLC in 1892 and opened additional distilleries around the world throughout the early 20th Century. In 2000 they were acquired by Remy Cointreau but became an independent company again in 2006 through several capital management firms, and today the brand’s product line includes a massive range of liqueurs as well as vodkas, gins, and genevers, with an annual revenue exceeding 95 million euros.

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