Our 144th auction has now closed, achieving some fantastic hammer prices in the process.  Here a few of our highlights from this month.

W & A Gilbey bottle from the wreck of the SS Politician

So it seems that history does in fact have a price, and that price is £11,500!  We love to see bottles like this come through the auction as they highlight the crucial importance of whisky to Scottish material culture, showing how the mighty dram intersects with Scottish history at every turn.

Yamazaki 1984 25th Anniversary

Distilled almost four decades ago this tremendous example of Japanese craftsmanship was bottled to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the birth of the Yamazaki brand.  This particular milestone in Japanese distilling history does not come cheap however, with this lot reaching the princely sum of £13,000 at auction.

Laphroaig 1970 14 Year Old Cadenhead’s for SCOMA GMBH 75cl

We knew this was a great bottle as soon as we laid eyes on it, and it proved to be so achieving a thoroughly respectable £10,000 hammer price at auction.  It’s not everyday you see a Laphroaig distilled over 50 years ago so kudos to the eventual buyer who has secured themselves a special bottling for sure.

Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt Card Eight of Hearts

A longstanding favourite of those amongst us who collect Japanese whisky, the Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt Card Series is a collection of bottles highly prized and regularly sought-after.  We don’t see them all that often, indeed this was only the second sale of a Eight of Hearts through our auctions, so the final hammer price of £5,800 (the highest we’ve ever sold it for) seems a good deal for both buyer and seller!

With yet another successful auction behind us we now start the hard work of preparing next months auction.  The 145th auction will be going live Friday the 30th of June and there is still time to get your bottles submitted with the deadline for bottles not until Friday the 16th of June.  Have a good month everyone, we’ll be in touch again once the next auction is good to go.