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the bottom corner of the last page is the exact same bottle, sold in the same auction,
complete with box, booklet and a standard JW Blue Label mini. This sold for £260 – nuts!
That is £200 less than the bottle on it’s own. I started my working life working for an auction
company and the stupidity of bidders has not got any better in the last 50 years.

The two Old Pulteney were sold in a presentation box - £250 the pair. The
Littlemill 1990 5cl 29yo was bottled in 2019. It is the Private Cellar Edition #3 and was also
sold in a presentation box - £240. £240 also bought the Largiemeanoch 1972 5cl Cask
Strength 23yo from The Whisky Connoisseur. The Bowmore 1965 5cl looks to have a
slightly faded label. Even so it sold for £210. £210 could also have bought you this four
bottle ‘Race For Space’ set from
The Whisky Connoisseur.

The Grant's Stand Fast is probably 50ml. Bottled in the
1950’s, sold in 2020 for £190, the top price for a blend.
Another, without the box, sold for £70 – a lot for a box!

Starting the next page we have 3 White Horse Cellar
blends. These are all 50ml. The first is from 1949, it sold for £190. The other two are both
from 1959, the only label difference I can see is ‘No’ under the date on the first one, just like
on the 1949 bottle. This one sold for £160, the second for £80. What a difference a single

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