latest hammer price
Auction lots
22
Houses
1
Last sold
80 days ago
Ardbeg - Kelpie is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ardbeg. Based on 22 recorded auction lots across 22 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £145, with the most recent sale at £95. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £95 (low) to £200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ardbeg - Kelpie is £75–£115 (±21% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Ardbeg - Kelpie is down 52.5%, with a 6-month trend of -36.7% (down). wsky1 aggregates hammer prices from major public Scotch whisky auctions including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium (typically 24–28% additional at major houses). Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Ardbeg is a whisky distillery. Ardbeg - Kelpie is a no-age-statement bottling.
Named / limited release
Released as kelpie, 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
£95
24-month median
£145
24-month high
£200
24-month low
£95
Estimated value · likely range
£75–£115 ±21%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
6 lots
Cadence
≈ every 61 days
Trend
▲ 50% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 14% of tracked bottles
Last seen
80 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £95 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £95 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £110 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £115 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £150 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £150 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £150 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £120 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £120 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £140 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £170 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £140 | 1 |
Ardbeg - Kelpie appeared in 6 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is up 50% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 14% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Ardbeg - Kelpie at auction is £95. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £145, with a high of £200 and a low of £95. 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.
Ardbeg - Kelpie is down 52.5% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 36.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Ardbeg - Kelpie 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 £145 (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%.
Over the past 12 months Ardbeg - Kelpie has moved down 52.5%, with a current median hammer price of £145. The bottle has been observed at auction across 22 recorded lots in our database. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice. Whisky is an illiquid alternative asset; secondary-market value depends heavily on bottle condition, fill level, label integrity, and timing.
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 £95, 24-month median £145 — 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 Ardbeg - Kelpie that hammers at £95 would cost the buyer approximately £120 all-in including buyer's premium.
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