The First Crate Off the Line.
Twelve bottles, numbered 000001 to 000012, from the first run through the new bottling line.
The lot, in full.
Specification
- Contents
- Twelve bottles, ordinary product, extraordinary numbers
- Numbers
- 000001 to 000012, consecutive
- Crate
- The original wooden crate, stamped
- Age restriction
- Yes. Eighteen and over, carded at the door
- Drinkable
- Entirely. Whether you should is your business
- Ever again
- No. There is one first run
Every figure here is a term of the lot. Where something is an expectation rather than a promise — an outturn, a date — the row says so.
Why a number is worth anything.
It is not, in any material sense. The liquid is the same liquid. What is being sold is the first twelve of something, which is a category of object people have always paid for and probably always will.
The three things worth knowing before you bid.
The honest advice
Drink bottle 000007 and keep the rest. A sealed case of lager is not a store of value and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something.
Provenance
The crate carries the run record and the date, and the numbers are logged in the estate ledger.
Delivery
By age-verified courier, with somebody over eighteen required at the door.
Where this lot sits against the others.
| Lot | Current bid | Reserve | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cask 001 — first fill, ex-bourbon | £2,850 | £2,400 | Cask |
| The fleece off ewe 042 | £185 | £120 | Produce |
| A working day with Kaleb Cooper | £4,100 | £2,500 | Experience |
| The first crate off the new line | £640 | £400 | Object |
| The last hundredweight of the 2025 durum | £310 | None | Produce |
| One metre of wall, built with Gerald | £950 | £600 | Experience |
This build takes no bids
Every auction control on this site is a placeholder. No bid is binding, no card is taken, no lot is allocated and the bid histories are illustrative. A real version of this would need consumer auction terms, a clear description of the contract of sale, and — for the cask — a warehouse keeper approved under HMRC’s Warehousekeepers and Owners of Warehoused Goods Regulations.
The other lots
Back to the floor.
Six lots, all closing at eight on Sunday.
