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Orkney as the only other £2.50 blended Scotch mini I have to show you is also a G&M
            Orkney bottle.






























            White Horse 8yo Old Bottled 1930’s, US
            import £55 – White Horse 1955 £35 –
            White Horse 1950’s US import £40 – Vat
            69 1950’s £6 – The six ‘watch’ bottles
            sold for £6, no not £6 each, 6 for the 5!
            The single malts did somewhat better,
            well, most did.




















                                                           A 12yo Bowmore with tube for £3 anyone? Or
                                                           maybe you would prefer a 1989 15yo
                                                           Bowmore bottled by Hart Brothers? A couple
                                                           of collectors would have been very happy to
                                                           get these so cheap.

            Starting on the next page we have another Hart Brothers bottle, or actually twelve identical
            bottles sold separately. This is not normally a good idea with collectables but this time it
            paid off.  Sales per bottle were 2x£75, 4x£70, 3x£65 & 3x£60. The Rosebank minis from
            Signatory sold for £18 each – cheap for single cask malts. The Dalaruan 12yo vatted malt
            from Eaglesome fetched just £2.50. The set of six Springbank Millennium Edition came




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