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Default Marilyn Merlot Collection

On Dec 21, 8:51 pm, wrote:
> Hello all. I have just come into possession of a collection of
> Marilyn Merlot bottles. There are 1990 through 2005 inclusive and a
> 1987. Also there are some Norma Jean bottles. I am not a collector
> nor a consumer of wine so I am trying to find bonafide sellers or
> buyers of this. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks
> very much.


Are the bottles still full of wine or empty? If empty, an auction site
such as eBay would be a good place to try. Follow eBay for a while and
hopefully some Marilyn bottles will come up for auction to give you
and idea of what price to expect. Then you have to decide if you want
to sell the 1990 to 2005 bottles as a single lot or as individual
bottles. A sequence of bottles may be worth more per bottle than
single bottles. However many will pass it by if they already have some
of the bottles in the sequence.

If the bottles are still full, a wine auction house may be best. Look
up various wine auction houses in a Google search. Then find their
policy for buying your wines or putting them up for auction. Such
houses will need to know that the wines have been stored well at cool
temperatures if they want them. Then you may have to deliver or ship
the wines to the auction house. There can be problems in some states
in shipping wines by an individual. In many cases the wines can be
shipped if you want to take a risk, but if something happens to them
in shipment you may find it difficult to collect for damage or loss
because the shipping company may say that they do not ship wine from
your area and it is illegal to do so. Thus they may consider it your
fault if loss or damage occur.