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Whisky collection sells for almost £6.7m

The private hoard took a hammer price of 9,100,000 US dollars (£6,675,000), becoming the highest-value collection of its kind.

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A private collection of 3,900 whisky bottles has sold for around £6.7 million at auction.

The group took a hammer price of 9,100,000 US dollars (£6,675,000), becoming the highest-value collection of its kind.

It saw 1,557 distinct bidders from 54 countries battling it out for more than 1,900 lots on its final day of auction. ​

Iain McClune, founder of Whisky Auctioneer, said​: “This auction was solely dedicated to one collector’s magnificent library of whisky – a man who was dedicated to building the perfect collection.

“With so many incredible bottles attracting the attention of high-value investors and passionate collectors across the world, the sale is one for the record books – not just for Whisky Auctioneer but for the whisky industry as a whole.”

The most expensive bottle in the collection, the Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare 60-year-old, sold for a hammer price of 1.4 million dollars (£1 million) – the first time a single bottle of whisky is believed to have sold at an online-only auction for one million pounds.

It was part of the highest-value private collection ever to sell on the secondary market at an auction dedicated to one single collector’s whisky.

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