latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
31
Houses
2
Last sold
93 days ago
Bowmore 1988 (Vintage Edition) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore. Based on 31 recorded auction lots across 25 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £280, with the most recent sale at £210. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £190 (low) to £370 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1988 (Vintage Edition) is £183–£238 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore 1988 (Vintage Edition) is down 16%, with a 6-month trend of -34.4% (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.
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore 1988 (Vintage Edition) is a no-age-statement bottling.
Named / limited release
Released as Vintage Edition, 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.
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Latest sale
£210
24-month median
£280
24-month high
£370
24-month low
£190
Estimated value · likely range
£183–£238 ±13%
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
Trend
▼ 75% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 92% of tracked bottles
Last seen
93 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£280
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 24 | £243 | £280 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £210 | £210 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £210 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £243 | 3 |
| November 2024 | £280 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £260 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £320 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £300 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £320 | 2 |
| December 2022 | £360 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £340 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £340 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £360 | 1 |
| July 2020 | £290 | 1 |
More from Bowmore
Bowmore 1988 (Vintage Edition) 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 is down 75% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 92% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bowmore 1988 (Vintage Edition) at auction is £210. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £280, with a high of £370 and a low of £190. 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.
Bowmore 1988 (Vintage Edition) is down 16% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 34.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore 1988 (Vintage Edition) 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 £280 (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 Bowmore 1988 (Vintage Edition) has moved down 16%, with a current median hammer price of £280. The bottle has been observed at auction across 31 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 £210, 24-month median £280 — 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 1988 (Vintage Edition) that hammers at £210 would cost the buyer approximately £265 all-in including buyer's premium.
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