latest hammer price
Auction lots
14
Houses
1
Last sold
235 days ago
Bowmore 1980 With Copper Still Decanter is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore. Based on 14 recorded auction lots across 8 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £820, with the most recent sale at £800. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £155 (low) to £1,450 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1980 With Copper Still Decanter is £736–£864 (±8% around the latest sale).
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore 1980 With Copper Still Decanter is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1980.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1980), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as copperdecanterstill, 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
£800
24-month median
£820
24-month high
£1,450
24-month low
£155
Estimated value · likely range
£736–£864 ±8%
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
4 lots
Cadence
≈ every 91 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 22% of tracked bottles
Last seen
235 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £800 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £850 | 2 |
| October 2017 | £840 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £840 | 1 |
| November 2016 | £1,450 | 2 |
| December 2014 | £740 | 2 |
| December 2013 | £760 | 1 |
| November 2013 | £155 | 3 |
Bowmore 1980 With Copper Still Decanter appeared in 4 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 22% 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 1980 With Copper Still Decanter at auction is £800. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £820, with a high of £1,450 and a low of £155. 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 1980 With Copper Still Decanter, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £155 to £1,450 (median £820).
Bowmore 1980 With Copper Still Decanter 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 £820 (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 1980 With Copper Still Decanter has appeared in 14 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £820. 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 £800, 24-month median £820 — 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 1980 With Copper Still Decanter that hammers at £800 would cost the buyer approximately £1,008 all-in including buyer's premium.
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