latest hammer price
Auction lots
17
Houses
1
Last sold
25 days ago
Bowmore 1971 34 Year Old 75cl is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 34 years. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,700, with the most recent sale at £2,500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,700 (low) to £3,800 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1971 34 Year Old 75cl is £2,037–£2,963 (±19% around the latest sale).
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore 1971 34 Year Old 75cl is an age-stated bottling at 34 years old, distilled in 1971.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1971), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 34-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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.
Latest sale
£2,500
24-month median
£2,700
24-month high
£3,800
24-month low
£1,700
Estimated value · likely range
£2,037–£2,963 ±19%
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
Trend
▲ 25% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 17% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £2,500 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £1,700 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £2,100 | 2 |
| June 2025 | £2,200 | 2 |
| January 2025 | £2,700 | 2 |
| December 2023 | £3,000 | 2 |
| September 2019 | £3,600 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £3,800 | 3 |
| November 2018 | £3,200 | 2 |
Bowmore 1971 34 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). That is up 25% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 17% 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 Bowmore 1971 34 Year Old 75cl at auction is £2,500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,700, with a high of £3,800 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 Bowmore 1971 34 Year Old 75cl, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £1,700 to £3,800 (median £2,700).
Bowmore 1971 34 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 £2,700 (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%.
Bowmore 1971 34 Year Old 75cl has appeared in 17 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,700. 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 £2,500, 24-month median £2,700 — 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 Bowmore 1971 34 Year Old 75cl that hammers at £2,500 would cost the buyer approximately £3,150 all-in including buyer's premium.
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