latest hammer price
Auction lots
22
Houses
1
Last sold
236 days ago
Bowmore 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 21 years. Based on 22 recorded auction lots across 20 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £175, with the most recent sale at £250. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £100 (low) to £320 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare is £220–£280 (±12% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare is up 47.1%, with a 6-month trend of +25% (up). 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 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare is an age-stated bottling at 21 years old, distilled in 1990.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1990), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 21-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as rare, 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
£250
24-month median
£175
24-month high
£320
24-month low
£100
Estimated value · likely range
£220–£280 ±12%
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 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
236 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £250 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £320 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £270 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £280 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £200 | 1 |
| May 2019 | £160 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £200 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £180 | 1 |
| August 2017 | £208 | 2 |
| June 2017 | £165 | 1 |
| April 2017 | £200 | 1 |
| March 2017 | £180 | 1 |
Bowmore 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare 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 98% 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 Bowmore 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare at auction is £250. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £175, with a high of £320 and a low of £100. 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 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare is up 47.1% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 25%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare 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 £175 (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 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare has moved up 47.1%, with a current median hammer price of £175. The bottle has been observed at auction across 22 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 £250, 24-month median £175 — 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 1990 21 Year Old Old & Rare that hammers at £250 would cost the buyer approximately £315 all-in including buyer's premium.
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