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World - / Oct 12, 2026 - Only 40 Bottles Made: Macallan 1926 Whisky Sells for £2.125 Million - On 9 October 2026, a bottle of The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare whisky sold for £2,125,000 at auction, making it one of the most expensive bottles of whisky ever sold. The sale took place at Sotheby's first auction at The Macallan Estate in Speyside

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World - / Oct 13, 2026 - London Family Finds £30,000 Chinese Imperial Porcelain Dish Under Sofa - For decades, a large, dirt-covered porcelain dish lay beneath a sofa in a north London home, its significance unknown to the family who kept it. Now identified as a rare example of Chinese imperial porcelain associated with the court of Empress

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