latest hammer price
Auction lots
3
Houses
1
Last sold
150 days ago
Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) aged 12 years. Based on 3 recorded auction lots across 3 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £25, with the most recent sale at £20. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £20 (low) to £27 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) is £17–£23 (±14% around the latest sale).
Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) is a whisky distillery. Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) rather than by built-in rarity.
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
£20
24-month median
£25
24-month high
£27
24-month low
£20
Estimated value · likely range
£17–£23 ±14%
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
150 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £20 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £25 | 1 |
| February 2025 | £27 | 1 |
Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) 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 Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) at auction is £20. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £25, with a high of £27 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 Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £20 to £27 (median £25).
Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) 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 £25 (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%.
Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) has appeared in 3 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £25. 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 £20, 24-month median £25 — 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 Bell's - 12 Year Old (Special Reserve) that hammers at £20 would cost the buyer approximately £25 all-in including buyer's premium.
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