The Whisky The Whisky Sale I Edinburgh I Wednesday 9 October 2019 Edinburgh I Wednesday Bonhams 22 Queen Street Edinburgh, EH2 1JX 25369 +44 (0) 131 225 2266 bonhams.com The Whisky Sale AUCTIONEERS SINCE 1793 Edinburgh | 9 October 2019 The Whisky Sale Edinburgh | Wednesday 9 October 2019 at 11am 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh VIEWING ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES IMPORTANT INFORMATION Tuesday 8 October Martin Green Monday to Friday 8.30am The United States Government 10am to 4pm +44 (0) 131 225 2266 to 6.00pm has banned the import of ivory Wednesday 9 October [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 into the USA. Lots containing 9am to 11am Please see page 2 for bidder ivory are indicated by the Georgia Williams information including after-sale symbol Ф printed beside the SALE NUMBER +44 (0)131 225 2266 collection and shipment lot number in this catalogue. 25369 [email protected] ILLUSTRATIONS REGISTRATION CATALOGUE Press Enquiries: IMPORTANT NOTICE [email protected] Front cover: Lots 191 & 192 £10.00 +44 (0) 20 7468 5871 Back cover: Lot 256 Please note that all customers, Inside front cover: Lot 132 irrespective of any previous BIDS Inside back cover: Lot 336 activity with Bonhams, are +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 required to complete the Bidder +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Registration Form in advance [email protected] of the sale. The form can be found at the back of every Please note that bids should be catalogue and on our website at submitted no later than 4pm on www.bonhams.com and should the day prior to the sale. New be returned by email or post to bidders must also provide proof the specialist department or of identity when submitting bids. to the bids department at Failure to do this may result in [email protected] your bid not being processed. Bidding by telephone will only be To bid live online and / or leave accepted on a lot with the lower internet bids please go to estimate of £500. www.bonhams.com/ auctions/25369 and click on Live online bidding is available the Register to bid link at the for this sale top left of the page. Please email bids@bonhams. com with ‘live bidding’ in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Sale Information PRE-SALE INFORMATION Condition Options to buy parcels POST-SALE INFORMATION Bidding Bottle condition is only noted A parcel is a number of lots of Results Bidding is per lot as catalogued where it may significantly identical size of the same wine, Sale results are published on unless otherwise stated and influence the estimate value of bottle size and description. The our website shortly after the sale can be made in person, on the the lot. It is not our policy to buyer of the first lot in any parcel has finished. Vendors are also telephone (for individual lots inspect every unopened case, has the option to purchase some informed of sale results by post. with a lower estimate of £400 however those that have been or all of the remaining lots in Payment or over only) or by filling out the inspected may no longer have an the parcel at the same price, at Invoices must be settled by the absentee bid form at the back of intact lid. Ullage levels or bottle the discretion of the Auctioneer. registered buyer. this catalogue and faxing to the conditions may differ from their Commission bidders are therefore Contact numbers: number below. Bids can also be catalogue description as a result advised to bid on the first lot in a +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 placed by email or online: of transport. Corks in older wines parcel. [email protected] may fail naturally or as a result of Collections www.bonhams.com. transportation. Bonhams cannot Buyer’s Premium Please contact the department: (Please refer to notes on bidding accept responsibility at any point 27.5% on the first £2,500 of the Georgia Williams in the ‘During the Sale’ section). for failed corks, and no refunds or hammer price; [email protected] Bids must be made at least 24 replacements are given. 25% of the hammer price of +(0)131 225 2266 hours prior to the start of the sale. amounts in excess of £2,500 up Proof of identity is required before Ullage to and including £300,000; Vendors processing. Ullage refers to the space 20% of the hammer price of Vendors will be informed of the between the wine and the bottom amounts in excess of £300,000 result of the sale by post. Unless Bids Office of the cork. Acceptable ullage up to and including £3,000,000; requested to do otherwise, unsold 101 New Bond Street levels increase with age but we and 13.9% of the hammer price lots will be re-entered into the London W1S 1SR will only auction wines that we of any amounts in excess of next sale. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 tel consider to be in sound condition. £3,000,000. +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Ullage levels for Bordeaux-shaped bottles are only noted when not GENERAL INFORMATION Catalogue Descriptions and ‘into neck’ (see diagram) or, in Bids office: Cost Breakdown the case of Burgundy-shaped +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 tel Symbols (in bond / duty paid) bottles, when greater than 4cm +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Estimates include duty, and a from the base of the cork. Unless [email protected] buyer’s premium at 25% (+ VAT) otherwise indicated champagne will be charged on all lots. Items ullage is measured from the base Customer services: marked with Δ or † will also be of the bottle when inverted. +44 (0) 207 447 7447 tel charged VAT on the hammer price. Items marked with Δ may DURING THE SALE Catalogue subscriptions: be kept under bond if required Bidding +44 (0) 1666 502200 tel and duty will be deducted from Commission bids are rounded [email protected] the hammer price. If buyers down to the nearest increment. advise the bids office that they Bidding increments are at the require their wine to remain in discretion of the Auctioneer, but bond, duty will be deducted from are usually as follows: the hammer price and they are then responsible for clearance, Level of Bid Increment £50 - £100 £5 VAT and any other charges that £100 - £200 £10 may be payable. £200 - £500 £20 £500 - £1,000 £20/£50/£80 Please note that lots not Very Top Shoulder £1,000 - £2,000 £100 collected from 22 Queen Street Top Shoulder £2,000 - £5,000 £200 by 5.30pm Wednesday 23 High Shoulder £5,000 - £10,000 £200/500/800 October 2019 will be removed High/Mid Shoulder Over £10,000 £500 to our own storage facility at a Mid Shoulder cost of £10 per week plus VAT Low/Mid Shoulder per lot. Low Shoulder All lots will be invoiced Duty Paid Sale Information Edinburgh Salerooms Managing Director The Scottish Sale Arms & Armour 22 Queen Street, EH2 1JX Charles Graham-Campbell Chris Brickley Kenneth Naples +44 (0) 131 225 2266 Chairman Scotland Pictures Furniture, Clocks, Rugs, Glasgow Office Ray Entwistle Chris Brickley Carpets, Works of Art & Kirkhill House, Broom Road East May Matthews Scientific Instruments Newton Mearns Valuations, Trusts & Estates Charlotte Canby Kenneth Naples Glasgow G77 5LL Charles Graham-Campbell Chris Dawson (London) Charlotte Canby +44 (0) 141 223 8866 Grant MacDougall Gordon McFarlan Jewellery Whisky London Belinda Treble Nathalie Jordan FGA MA MLitt Martin Green 101 New Bond Street, W1S 1SR Amanda Dovesi Rebecca Bohle Georgia Williams +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Hamish Wilson Charles MacLean (consultant) +44 (0) 20 7447 7400 fax Silver Fiona Hamilton The Sporting Sale Gordon McFarlan Hamish Wilson Charlotte Canby Asian Art Ian Glennie Asha Edwards European Ceramics & Glass Sarah Shirley-Priest IMPORTANT NOTICE TO BUYERS COLLECTION AND STORAGE Please note that lots not collected from 22 Queen Street by Wednesday 23 October 2019 will be removed to our own storage facility at a cost of £10 per week plus VAT per lot. © Bonhams Scotland All rights reserved. Reproduction of catalogue and photographs, in whole or in part is prohibited without acknowledgement to Bonhams Scotland RARE LAPHROAIG, ISLAY AND FINE MALTS 7 LAPHROAIG-10 YEAR OLD 1 † As above lot. Level: top shoulder. LAPHROAIG-40 YEAR OLD-1960 1 bottle Bottled 29th May 2001. Distilled and bottled by D. Johnson & Co. (Laphroaig), Laphroaig Distillery £600 - 800 Bottle number 596. In presentation case. Good labels. Level: very top €670 - 900 shoulder. 70 cl. Single malt, 42.4% volume HK$5,800 - 7,800 1 bottle 8 £6,000 - 7,000 LAPHROAIG-10 YEAR OLD €6,700 - 7,800 As above lot. Level: top shoulder. HK$58,000 - 68,000 1 bottle 2 † £600 - 800 LAPHROAIG-40 YEAR OLD-1960 €670 - 900 Bottled 29th May 2001. Distilled and bottled by D. Johnson & Co. HK$5,800 - 7,800 (Laphroaig), Laphroaig Distillery Bottle number 596. In presentation case. Good labels. Level: very top 9 shoulder. 70 cl. Single malt, 42.4% volume LAPHROAIG-10 YEAR OLD 1 bottle Distilled and bottled by D. Johnston & Co., (Laphroaig) Ltd., Laphroaig Distillery. £6,000 - 7,000 Plain screw cap. Good labelling. Level: very top shoulder. Single malt, €6,700 - 7,800 no strength or capacity stated on labelling. HK$58,000 - 68,000 1 bottle 3 † £600 - 800 LAPHROAIG-40 YEAR OLD-1960 €670 - 900 Bottled 29th May 2001.