It is great to see the bereaved partner offering these items to us, so that we can prevent some of them going into a skip.
I wonder would she consider offering a few as prizes in photo competitions? A solution would probably be easy to find as regards the cost of posting them.
I could for instance see the whiskey and the T-shirt and the postcard collection as suitable for a photo competition. What do you think?
Has she actually offered them to the forum ?.
In whisky world when you mention Springbank it does and will add a certain extra value to the item. However sometimes the value isn't what you expect. Id say to her , gather some friends around who knew her partner , open the bottle and toast his memories ! now thats priceless. I have the same bottle, it sits tucked away , the many other QE2 bottles in my collection . a number of years ago l had one "valued" the auctioneer hadn't seen one before, so he simply googled it and gave the reply its worth more to a QE2 collector than to a whisky collector. I doubt l will open any of my bottles but they will sit there and gather dust , but they are nice to look at. I never did like that Auctioneer from then, and one of those you see advertised in the papers. But they get their money no matter how much or little stuff sells for. and its a hefty cut.
Look at The Macallan , they are churning out mass produced crap with new variations literally every week and the hype pushes the value through the roof. If your successful in the ballots, then its very easy money to make, just dont be greedy. l sold a bottle from the folio collection for way over the asking price to a guest, purely by chance he was over collecting a £80K fine bottle and got a kick out of the fact mine was still in the original box with address label etc and unopened. he was going to simply take it home to Switzerland gather some of his friends around , and enjoy the experience of opening a new and sealed box. he said later if he wanted to make money he could fly to Hong Kong with his £80K and flip it for £400£ but hes a collector and as such that wont apply to him.
In my job iv been lucky to have some rather nice bottles of bubbles and while its very easy to be blaze about it , people say ok keep it for a special occasion, but to open a bottle of champagne is a special occasion and it does give a very nice edge on a bucks fizz . At 9am on Christmas day during lockdown it was fabulous.
The QE2 ties, at the time l bought mine in 86 l couldn't believe l was paying so much for a tie, it wasnt even boxed, but l wore it mainly in QE2. the World cruise tie l loaned to a friend who was doing a World Cruise for her to lend to her partner , why they didn't buy a tie l dont know , buts thats QE2 passengers for you . Other than at work l rarely if ever wear a tie, and if l do its the Queen Mary purple tartan tie , which goes with nothing. But hey l like it.
But sometimes it just hard to put a "value" on things .
