The mark consists of a two dimensional and non-configuration depiction of a brown bottle with a white cap with gray shading, with the cap featuring the letters "BALLANTIN" in gold presented diagonally up the right side of the cap as if beginning the wording "BALLANTINE'S" and the letters "NTINE'S" in gold presented diagonally up the left side of the cap as if ending the wording "BALLANTINE'S"; with the bottle featuring a small white label around the base of its neck featuring the wording "BY APPOINTMENT TO THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE LATE KING EDWARD VII" in black, and with the small label connected by a vertical brown ribbon to a large vertically-oriented white rectangular label on the face of the bottle featuring the wording "BALLANTINE'S FINEST", with the "BALLANTINE'S" portion of the wording appearing in navy blue and the "FINEST" portion of the wording appearing in red; with a shield design on the large label having a blue upper left quadrant featuring a yellow bundle of wheat with black detailing and cinched in brown, a yellow upper right quadrant featuring a gray stream with black detailing, a yellow lower left quadrant featuring a white building with a black door and a white domed roof with black detailing, and a blue lower right quadrant featuring a yellow barrel with black detailing; with a design above the shield of a white and yellow armor helmet with brown shadowing and black detailing, having blue and yellow leaves to its sides and a yellow and brown griffin with black detailing holding a gray sword above it; with a design next to each side of the shield of a white horse with gray shading and black detailing and having a yellow mane and tail and red horse tack and holding a yellow staff with a blue flag featuring a white X and yellow border on three sides; and beneath the horses and shield, a design of yellow ground with green leaves and red flowers and a white horizontal banner featuring the wording "AMICUS HUMANI GENERIS" in red; and with the wording "FULLY MATURED" in black to the left of the horses and shield, the wording "FINEST QUALITY" in black to the right of them, and the wording "ESTD 1827" in black below them; beneath the foregoing features on the large label appears the wording "BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY BLENDED & BOTTLED BY GEORGE BALLANTINE AND SON LTD DISTILLERS DUMBARTON SCOTLAND" in black and the signature "GEO BALLANTINE" in red; at the base of the large label appears a round red seal embossed with the letters "GBS" enclosed within an embossed circle; the wording "BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND" in black appears to the left of the seal and the wording "PRODUCT OF SCOTLAND" in black appears to the right of the seal; the signature "GEO BALLANTINE" appears to be etched into the bottom of the brown bottle; along the edges of the center third of each side of the large label appears a gold vertical line; extending from the gold vertical line on the left side of the large label is a white diagonal label featuring the letters "TINE'S" in black presented as if ending the word "BALLANTINE'S", and extending from the gold vertical line on the right side of the large label is a diagonal label that is shaded gray and features the letter "B" in black presented as if beginning of the word "BALLANTINE'S".