Ballantines Mystery

I have just located in my Step Fathers house a Bottle of Ballantines Finest Scotch Whisky. The cap has a seal across it from George Ballantine and Sons. The label says By appointment to the Late Queen Victoria and the Late King Edward VII. So where's the mystery ? The Cap is a perfect fit, but it is in Plastic ! Any Clues anyone ?

[Jojo]

We need you to post a photo of your bottle - include clear, close up of the label (front & back) and of the closure. Anywhere there is writing on your bottle, we need to be able to read it.

Here are a couple of Images from this particular bottle.

Been back to the house and on the back of this bottle is a small label 'Provision de Bord'. Possibly something to do with the export market, my step father lived in France for part of the year.

I have 3/4 case of these in their boxes.

[blenderm]

The flask is a half bottle and appears from the label to be from around the early 1970's but it there are a couple of oddities. First there's no volume or strength on the label the other is that it appears to have a plastic coating. Both these seem to point to the bottle being a display bottle, the only way to check is to see if there's a back label or alternatively open it.

The full bottle is from around 1962 to 1967

Hello,
i found old bottle of Ballantines Finest scotch whisky...

Sticker have number k227
and on the bottom are numbers sc 529 and 12

There are pictures
http://www.bami.cz/bami/files/aukro/ballantines.jpg
http://www.bami.cz/bami/files/aukro/ballantines77.jpg

Regards,
J.Kosecky

[blenderm]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hello,
i found old bottle of Ballantines Finest scotch whisky...

Sticker have number k227
and on the bottom are numbers sc 529 and 12

There are pictures
http://www.bami.cz/bami/files/aukro/ballantines.jpg
http://www.bami.cz/bami/files/aukro/ballantines77.jpg

Regards,
J.Kosecky

This bottle's from the late 70's into the 80's so the date of 1977 on the base may be correct. Bottles from the early 70's had the 2 flags on the label different colours.

Originally Posted by blenderm

This bottle's from the late 70's into the 80's so the date of 1977 on the base may be correct. Bottles from the early 70's had the 2 flags on the label different colours.

Thank you for answer.
What about price? How much is normal price for this bottle?

[blenderm]

Value is what anyone wants to pay and I doubt that anyone would buy such a modern blend as there's very little value in it. Either try selling on eBay [remember you're selling the bottle NOT the whisky] or open it and have a dram or three