The BUNDABERG rum trade marks and brand assets are owned by Bundaberg Distilling Company Pty Ltd and are used on this supporter site under licence.

We wish to thank the Frangos family for their assistance with the information on this site.

The speciality of Frangos Liqueurs was their Royal Rum Liqueur, made on a coffee base with rum. In later years it would be marketed as Bundaberg Royal Rum Liqueur in various bottle styles and labels

Frangos Liqueurs was a distributor and bottler of Bundaberg Rum in the square bottles. Frangos Liqueurs acted as the Brisbane bottling agent for A.R.D. which was owned by Millaquin Sugar Company (one time owners of BDC) and Sam McMahon.

Galleon, although containing regular Bundaberg Rum, was an attempt by BDC to make the product appear "upmarket". To do this they took the idea and turned to Michael Frangos. Michael Frangos took the idea, and at his kitchen table conceived and designed the iconic "crystal-cut" style bottle that we all know and love today. The reason for choosing this design? He thought his wife would like it! (ironically, Sam McMahon, partner in ARD and designer of the original brick-style bottle on which the crystal cuts were fashioned, was dead against them and did not like them as he claimed it would confuse the market). Frangos Liqueurs designed and bottled Galleon, with Sam McMahon's only input to it being distribution.

Michael Frangos Jr, although can not be certain, has a strong feeling that the galleon logo was also designed by his father - but this is a claim he can not substantiate.  There are a multitude of label/size variations in the Galleon range.

More to come……

The “Holy Grail” for a collector. The Royal Liqueur pistols are one of, if not the, rarest Bundy bottles out there. Circa approximately late 1960's/early 1970's. These are considered the collectors “holy grail”.