latest hammer price
Auction lots
10
Houses
1
Last sold
363 days ago
A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from A.H. Hirsch aged 16 years. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,100, with the most recent sale at £1,800. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,700 (low) to £2,700 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old is £1,586–£2,014 (±12% around the latest sale).
A.H. Hirsch is a whisky distillery. A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 16 years old, distilled in 1974.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1974), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old, a named edition rather than part of the standard core range.
These are scarcity and demand signals drawn from the bottle's own attributes — they describe the bottle, not a prediction of future price. Not investment advice.
Latest sale
£1,800
24-month median
£2,100
24-month high
£2,700
24-month low
£1,700
Estimated value · likely range
£1,586–£2,014 ±12%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 97% of tracked bottles
Last seen
363 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | £1,800 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £2,300 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £2,700 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £2,400 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £2,100 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £2,100 | 2 |
| January 2022 | £1,900 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £1,700 | 1 |
| June 2021 | £1,800 | 1 |
A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 97% by auction activity among the 30,758 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old at auction is £1,800. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,100, with a high of £2,700 and a low of £1,700. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium. Data is aggregated from major auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £1,700 to £2,700 (median £2,100).
A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old regularly appears at major Scotch whisky auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions (Scotland), Whisky Auctioneer (Scotland), Just Whisky, Whisky Hammer, and Bonhams. The current median hammer price is £2,100 (excluding buyer's premium). At most major houses, buyer's premium adds 24–28% on top of hammer for the buyer; sellers typically receive the hammer price minus a sales commission of 5–15%.
A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,100. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
wsky1 ingests public auction results from major auction houses (via direct scraping of Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, Bonhams, and Whisky Hammer, plus aggregated data from WhiskyHunter). For each bottle, we group hammer prices by year-month and compute the median price per month. The figures shown — latest £1,800, 24-month median £2,100 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.
No. All prices on wsky1 are hammer prices only. Buyer's premium at major Scotch whisky auction houses currently runs at 24–28% on top of the hammer price. A bottle of A.H. Hirsch Reserve 1974 16 Year Old that hammers at £1,800 would cost the buyer approximately £2,268 all-in including buyer's premium.
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