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Islay Mist from Laphroaig fetched an exceptional price for a blend, £160. There are few
miniatures from Imperial distillery, the Malt for the Millennium being the only one I know of,
assuming it is an owner bottling. It was made for Gall & Gall of Amsterdam and sold for
£75. Ardbeg Supernova made £60. The top sale price in the Whisky Auction (UK) January
auction was £625 for the 10 year old spiral label Macallan. Clearly the buyer (and under
bidders) did not know what they were buying. This is not a distillery or owner bottling. The
spiral label bottles were made by Atkinson Baldwin & Co – see Miniature Bottle Library for 8
different ones from 7 distilleries. The box should have been a dead giveaway, a company
like Macallan would never sell bottles in a box that has been overwritten by hand.

The four The Clansman ‘Family’ malts sold for £14. I saw these on sale, new, in Gretna

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