btw i believe the seal was compromised on the airplane trip a few months ago.

as long as were on the topic ...what is something like this worth?

I think if it were mine, I would securely and tightly wrap the seal in plastic rap covering the entire seal, stamp and all. Then I would seal it in wax, by dipping it four or five times in melted wax. I think that would seal it and be removable so as not to compromise its value......just my idea.

well... couple things I was taught about the age of scotch.
The age of the stuff INSIDE the bottle is the length of time it was in the barrel. So it is a 12 or a 16 year old because that is how long it sat. Once it came out.. and was bottled.. it never aged.. or improved. So the dusty 25 year old bottle I got of 12 year old scotch is still a 12 year old scotch, NOT 37 the fact that the bottle is 80 years old.. only makes it special if that was a rare batch... or a very good one. because it is not very difficult to find. If it was an 80 year old bottle of a crappy scotch.. then it is just old crappy scotch. So.. My advice.. do some research.. find out if in the year the bottle was put out.. the scotch was listed as a good batch. and go from there.

When I was in the Guard, 1996, a guy found a pack of smokes in a desk drawer hidden away in an old storage room in the armory. Didn't have the warning label on it - tells you how old the pack was. Fucking idiots opened it and smoked 'em. They were terrible (even for hardcore smokers) but that unopened pack must've been worth $$$. Yeah, booze doesn't age once bottled, unlike wine, which is good and bad.