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A Karuizawa cask — Plate I · file № 5 · Karuizawa, closed 2000
The distillery closed in 2000. One original cask now brings £2,125,000.
Reported at auction · the revival still sells new fill at retail terms
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Plate I · file № 5 · Karuizawa, closed 2000
The distillery closed in 2000. One original cask now brings £2,125,000.
Reported at auction · the revival still sells new fill at retail terms
Read the complete file →

Then and now · every figure sourced

Original Karuizawa · one bottle

£752007 retail

£2,000+at auction

Club Oenologique · 1981 cask № 103

Japanese whisky

2014

up nearly 580%by 2024

Rare Whisky 101 · Japanese 100 index

A Love Supreme · mint first pressing

$800

over $3,500five years on

Popsike sale records

Past sales from named sources · nothing here forecasts a return

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The library holds twenty-three researched finds, and a new one joins every week: silent-distillery casks, unsigned Edo carvings, tour-only putters, first-pressing jazz. A curated shelf, never a feed.

An unsigned Edo netsuke — № 2Unsigned Edo netsukeSignature-less Edo carvings trade below signed peers while ivory restrictions push collectors into wood.

A Kumalae koa soprano ukulele — № 9Kumalae gold-award koa sopranosHigher-style pre-war sopranos trade for hundreds while old-growth koa grows unobtainable.

A cabinet of Habanos — № 1Pre-2010 Habanos cabinetsAged boxes of delisted vitolas lag the 2022 reprice despite finite supply.

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monitoring · an alert · file № 17

User-grade 1930s Leica III bodies with uncoated Elmar 50/3.5 and Summar 50/2 glass

Listed for sale at this find’s dealers:

Leica III Chrome body #248982

Leica Store San Francisco · ask USD 395

1930s screw-mount III body, user grade; in stock at USD 395

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Leica 5cm f3.5 Elmar lens #477170

Leica Store San Francisco · ask USD 375

Collapsible Elmar 50/3.5, the pocket’s core uncoated glass; in stock at USD 375

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Two lots from a real alert in our own test, 24 September 2026 · the pieces may have sold since

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