Nancy barrows asked:
Hi, about 20 years ago my father worked on a fishing boat off cape cod, massachusetts. One day they dragged up a crate of FOUR ACES WHISKY in about 50 feet of water. All the bottles broke because of pressure but one. Is this bottle worth anything?
THANK YOU!!

Charlie Says:

Dear Nancy,

I have never heard of 'Four Aces', and my reference books are silent on the brand. Your story is a good one, and is good provenance for an auction catalogue. I bet it was jetisoned during Prohibition while it was being smuggled into the U.S. If I remember correctly, there was quite a bit of smuggling activity around Cape Cod in the 1920s. Does the surviving bottle still have its label? What kind of a cork/stopper has it? What is the level of the liquor in the bottle - above the shoulders? Check these out, then phone Martin Green, Christie's whisky expert (0141 332 8134. A nice thing to have.

Best wishes,

Charles MacLean