200 YEARS OLD.
BOTTLES OF TOKAY.
WORTH ABOUT £25,000.
(Received 5, 1.30 p.m.) • London, Sept. 4. Eight thousand bottles' of Tokay 200 years old, portion of a cellar founded in Austria by the King of Poland in 1673, has been brought, to England from the Saxon Court and will be sold privately. Tho estimated value is £25,000. The bottles are flagons of hand blown glass, bearing the Royal arms of Saxony, and worth £1 apiece to antiquaries.—(Sydney “.Sun” cable.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 5 September 1927, Page 5
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79200 YEARS OLD. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 5 September 1927, Page 5
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