The bottles were part of the cargo saved aboard the SS Politician when it sank in 1941 in the Sound of Eriskay, in the Outer Hebrides.
The world-renowned novel Whisky Galore, written by Sir Compton Mackenzie, was based on the incident which saw 28,000 cases of malt whisky run aground.
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It was later found that nearly 290,000 ten-shilling notes, worth several million pounds in modern money, were also on board the ship.
The bottles were brought back to the surface in August of 1987 by a professional diver from South Uist.
One bottle dating from 1940 from Gibney's of London is estimated to fetch £8,000 at auction while another bottled by Peter Dawson in Glasgow in 1940 could be sold for as much as £6,000.
The whisky bottles will be sold at Bonhams auction house in Edinburgh on Wednesday (7th June) but can be previewed by the public tomorrow (Tuesday 6th June) and Wednesday morning.
