RARE WINES SOLD.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 430, 11 May 1937, Page 6

RARE WINES SOLD.

MONEY FOR CHARITY. Bottle of Brandy Brings £3O. London, April 17. Bottles of ‘‘travelled:” sherry which had made the sea trip to Australia and back were among the rare wines sold at a charity’ sale at Christie’s famous auction rooms in London this week. For five hours a hundred people sat on cane_bottomed chairs. 1 round a U-shaped table and bought ali Kinds of wine. They boughjt '* In shillings) and they bought it in pounds. They bought it by the lot and they bought it by he dozen. They .might bid for two bottles, but their bids were, nonetheless, at so much a dozen. Sherry that goes back to Waterloo (1815) fetched £l2 a dozen—but there were only three bottles avail-: able. Sherry brought from Buckingham Palace; madeira bottles.' to commemorates the Coronation in 1902 of King Edward VII; madeira from the Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland. Lord Queensberry bought a bottle of brandy presented btj" the King; the Denis Henry Mounie of 1808>. He paid £3O for it. Magnums EWtebu Latour ’99 presented by the French Ambassador, fetched 83s a magnum. Ale brewed by King Edward VII in 1902 fetched ale brewed by ex-King Edward VIII when Prince of Wales in 1929 fetch--100l a dozen—beer at 8s 4d a bottle; ed 15s a bottle.