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uncle tom wrote: ↑11:45 Thu 29 Mar 2018I'm not under stocked on either '22 or '24 and the strangely low estimate rang alarm bells.

..but I wasn't going to let eleven bottles of near century old port go for just £850 hammer.

So I bid £900 - and won the lot..

Have looked at the bottles for the first time today, and the lot description didn't do them justice. All the bottles have perfectly intact wax capsules, and the colour looks promising. The worst level is on one of the '22s at low shoulder - not below low shoulder as billed. Only one of the '24s shows seepage (not two) and that's very minor.

- But who's the shipper?

• Review of the event as a whole;
• 1922 Warre;
• 1966 Taylor;
• 1970 Warre;
• 1970 Dow;
• 1970 Sandeman;
• 1963 Croft;
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Christie’s, 7^th December 2017, lot 557.