1 half-bottle Golden Guinea Champagne Believed late 1940s/early 1950s

Champagne

Embossed capsule, damaged and corroded. No label. Level 5.5cms below the cork. Sediment in bottle

This bottle is part of a consignment of half-bottles of Champagne bottled to commemorate the end of the Golden Guinea coin. The consignment was lost in the English Channel when the French freighter the Seine sank in a storm on July 16th 1955. This bottle was one of bottles that was recovered from the wreck in 2004.

Lying at LCB Barking