latest hammer price
Auction lots
38
Houses
1
Last sold
354 days ago
Bowmore 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th Edition is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore. Based on 38 recorded auction lots across 26 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £133, with the most recent sale at £230. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £100 (low) to £260 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th Edition is £157–£303 (±32% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th Edition is up 91.7%, with a 6-month trend of +4.5% (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 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th Edition is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1998.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1998), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Bowmore 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th 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.
Latest sale
£230
24-month median
£133
24-month high
£260
24-month low
£100
Estimated value · likely range
£157–£303 ±32%
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
354 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | £230 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £220 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £240 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £210 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £260 | 1 |
| June 2019 | £200 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £220 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £145 | 1 |
| January 2018 | £155 | 1 |
| June 2017 | £113 | 2 |
| May 2017 | £118 | 2 |
| December 2016 | £105 | 1 |
More from Bowmore
Bowmore 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th 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 puts it in the top 98% 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 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th Edition at auction is £230. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £133, with a high of £260 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 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th Edition is up 91.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 4.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th 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 £133 (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 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th Edition has moved up 91.7%, with a current median hammer price of £133. The bottle has been observed at auction across 38 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 £230, 24-month median £133 — 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 1998 Hand Filled Cask #32162 5th Edition that hammers at £230 would cost the buyer approximately £290 all-in including buyer's premium.
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