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The two ‘watch’ bottles from W & S Strong had mixed results. The Strong’s Dundee Whisky
sold for £7 whereas the Real Mountain Dew went for £45.

There were very poor prices
for these micros. The first
four, Dalmore, Glengoyne,
Old Fettercairn and Tomintoul
sold for £2, and no that’s not
each. The next three,
Bladnoch, Dalmore and
Glengoyne also sold for £2 for
the three this time.

Matchbox bottles sometimes fetch truly silly prices. I
have seen one sell for £65 (no, not £6.50!) but the
above three sold for £6. A bit on the low side but not a
disaster. The Spey Royal Scotch brand used to be
imported into the US by Jim Beam in the days when the brand was owned by Gilbey’s (it’s
now owned by Diageo). Beam could not resist making personalised labels, the same as
they did for their Bourbon bottles. This seems not to have really taken off with the Scotch
with, maybe, only a few dozen as opposed to somewhere north of 2000 for the Bourbon.

The Strathmore is an English bottled Scotch blend, probably from the 1930s, it sold for £40.

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