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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: flying free on August 06, 2012, 12:08:06 AM
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I was searching for something else and came across this.
Apparently this was the most expensive whisky produced selling for £580 per bottle and the bottles were made by Nazeing Glass
https://ffirstimpressions.com/bespoke.html
m
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I wonder when they were made M? The metal bashers started in 1975, so that gives us a start date... perhaps Stephen P-H will drop by and tell us more.
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No idea but will have a further search
It seems the price went up a little :o http://www.whiskyantique.com/blended-whisky__2/old-parr-elizabethan-blended-85-cl-43_ID1666.html
m
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I'm trying to work out who made the whisky..... or is it the bottle alone that makes the price so silly?
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Only a blended! give me a single malt like Glenfarclas or Yamazaki any day and the glass is not so interesting either ;D ;D
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United Distillers as was
but there is some info I just came across on why they keep the original distillery name (takeovers etc) I don't know anything about it and they used to be my client for Bell's Whisky....oh the good old days when Famous Grouse was my bete noire.
m
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I like the glass - I like it as much as I love the Bombay Sapphire bottles. Have you seen other special bottles with decoration in or on the glass Keith? I'm curious.
m
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/sep/20/worlds-most-expensive-whisky-dalmore-62
so
it's a steal at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182990/Did-Olympic-officials-blow-19-000-bottle-cognac-Receipt-posted-online-man-saying-bought-bottle-Hennessy-1853.html
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Got a few old bottles, no surprise there then ::) here's a good old Gilbey gin bottle a Bromsgrove mineral water and a lemonade bottle,Archers lemonade?,Christmas edition? ;D ;D
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A locel charity shop here had an empty bottle of Haig Dimple with a snakeskin cover. Sadly, as I was telling the manageress I thought it might be worth a tad more than the £3 on it, a dealer grabbed it.
I really don't know much about whisky bottles though.
Vasart melted some and collapsed them into ashtrays. Teacher's is the brand-name on mine.
Then there's Timo Sarpaneva's classic, the Finlandia gin bottle, and all the weird ones containing even weirder drinks, with internal parts you find in airport shops....
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I've certainly seen more expensive Whiskeys than that. But in plain ordinary bottles. Next time I'm at the liquor store I'll take a picture or two. (Now that I've figured out how to get the pictures off the phone onto the computer).
Carolyn
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yes but the Nazeing bottle has latticino canes in it.
Carolyn I think it was at the time it was produced, but I would be interested to see the more expensive ones if you get a pic of them. I'm agog. I do love the Guinness World Record type stuff!
Ivo but those bottles are boring and Keith, sorry they don't do it for me :-[
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yes but the Nazeing bottle has latticino canes in it.
Carolyn I think it was at the time it was produced, but I would be interested to see the more expensive ones if you get a pic of them. I'm agog. I do love the Guinness World Record type stuff!
Ivo but those bottles are boring and Keith, sorry they don't do it for me :-[
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So an embossed Bank's beer bottle wouldn't get you going then?
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No not really Keith. I know the Bombay Sapphire bottle is quite plain in shape, but the colour is sensational. It has to have wow factor really.
m
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Hi,
Dropping by as requested by Anne.
No this bottle was not made by us, but we have done about 1 dozen reproduction bottles, some selling for over £3,000 each, initially.
A recent one of ours sold for $15,000 the pair in a Hong Kong, Bonhams Auction and the buyer was the distiller! he was also the seller!
(I shall not mention his name!)
"Why did you buy back your own product?". I asked.
"Because prior to that $10,000 a pair was the best price.
We have some left in stock and can mark up the value in our books!"
We did make dark amber, heavy Old Parr ashtrays pressed, but not this bottle.
The first we did was late 1980's for Burberrys, then Ardbegg, Glenfiddich, Johnnie Walker, Harveys of Bristol, etc.
Langham glass did the Bombay Sapphire gin bottle I believe, but check with Paul.
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Caithness also did some special bottles in particular c2000 A still shaped bottle for Glenmorangie Elegance. Gordon Hendry was involved in the mould design project and production... only a couple of hundred were made.
http://www.htfw.com/scotch-malt-whisky/highlands/glenmorangie/glenmorangie-elegance-decanter-21-year-old
sell for 3 to 500 pounds full now.
But there was already a machine made version in production elsewhere... it would be be nice to see an example of that to determine the differences.
Ivo is yours, shown, machine made or hand blown version?
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definitely hand made.
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yes but the Nazeing bottle has latticino canes in it
Hi M,
I think you better take another look. The 'latticino' is actually food grade pewter netting, with a few exclusive versions being made with silver, so above the glass, not within it ;)
Nigel