Thomas Shelby (read: anonymous) bought a bottle of The Macallan Fine, the rare Scottish whiskey. London's auction house Sotheby's said it expected the bottle to sell for around $ 500,000, but the figure was far higher than that.

The Macallan Fine sold for $ 1.9 million. We repeat: $ 1.9 million.

What makes it so costly?

According to Sothebym, the bottle was part of a rare collection that was distilled in 1926 and bottled in 1986.

The previous record for the most expensive whiskey bottle in the world was also held by a Macallan bottle, which sold for $ 1.5 million in 2018.

Note: Thomas Shelby, the character of "Peaky Blinders" - a serial built on the story of a gangster family, set in Birmingham in the 1919s; everything revolves around a gang holding razors in their hats and hats, Thomas Shelby, who prefers Scottish whiskey among others.