latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
8
Houses
2
Last sold
31 days ago
Ballantine's - 12 Year Old (75cl) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ballantine's aged 12 years. Based on 8 recorded auction lots across 7 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £20, with the most recent sale at £40. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £20 (low) to £40 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ballantine's - 12 Year Old (75cl) is £31–£50 (±24% around the latest sale).
Ballantine's is a whisky distillery. Ballantine's - 12 Year Old (75cl) is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Non-standard format
Bottled in a 750ml format rather than the standard 700ml, which sets it apart from the regular run.
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.
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Latest sale
£40
24-month median
£20
24-month high
£40
24-month low
£20
Estimated value · likely range
£31–£50 ±24%
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
5 lots
Cadence
≈ every 73 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 17% of tracked bottles
Last seen
31 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Whisky Hammer · Scotch Whisky Auctions
Cross-house median
£20
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisky Hammer | 7 | £20 | £20 |
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 1 | £40 | £40 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £40 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £20 | 2 |
| March 2026 | £20 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £22 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £37 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £20 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £20 | 1 |
Ballantine's - 12 Year Old (75cl) appeared in 5 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 17% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Ballantine's - 12 Year Old (75cl) at auction is £40. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £20, with a high of £40 and a low of £20. 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 Ballantine's - 12 Year Old (75cl), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £20 to £40 (median £20).
Ballantine's - 12 Year Old (75cl) 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 £20 (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%.
Ballantine's - 12 Year Old (75cl) has appeared in 8 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £20. 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 £40, 24-month median £20 — 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 Ballantine's - 12 Year Old (75cl) that hammers at £40 would cost the buyer approximately £50 all-in including buyer's premium.
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