How to copy swatches between documents?

Hi,
I've been trying for a while to copy all swatches from a document to another. The goal is to create a new document with the same swatches as a source document.
The most obvious solution to this, would be to use the duplicate command, but I can't seem to get it working properly. Something similar to the following line produces the error "clone not allowed":
duplicate swatch 1 from doc1 to doc2
I've have also tried this variant:
repeat with i from 1 to count of doc1's swatches
     set swatchProperties to properties of swatch i of doc1
     set swatchProperties's container to doc2
     make new swatch in doc2 with properties sProp
end repeat
This oddly enough works in the first iteration, but then spits out the error: "Adobe Illustrator got an error: Invalid type".
I thought this would be an easy task, and I still believe it somehow is and I'm just doing it wrong.
Anyone?
Thanks

OK,
Now I actually managed to do it:
repeat with i from 1 to count of doc1's swatches
     set newSwatch to make new swatch in doc2
     set newSwatch's name to (name of swatch i of doc1) as string
     set newSwatch's color to color of swatch i of doc1
end repeat
It would it still be nice though if someone could tell me how to use the duplicate command.
Thanks

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