latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
50
Houses
2
Last sold
26 days ago
Bowmore 43 Year Old, 1973 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 43 years. Based on 50 recorded auction lots across 29 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £4,100, with the most recent sale at £2,700. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,700 (low) to £28,000 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 43 Year Old, 1973 is £2,470–£2,930 (±9% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore 43 Year Old, 1973 is down 25%, with a 6-month trend of -38.6% (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 43 Year Old, 1973 is an age-stated bottling at 43 years old, distilled in 1973.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1973), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 43-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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
£2,700
24-month median
£4,100
24-month high
£28,000
24-month low
£2,700
Estimated value · likely range
£2,470–£2,930 ±9%
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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Bonhams
Cross-house median
£4,100
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 | 28 | £2,700 | £3,950 |
| Bonhams | 1 | £28,000 | £28,000 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £2,700 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £28,000 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £2,900 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £3,800 | 1 |
| July 2021 | £4,400 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £3,600 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £4,400 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £3,400 | 2 |
| July 2020 | £4,200 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £3,400 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £3,600 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £3,200 | 2 |
Bowmore 43 Year Old, 1973 appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 39% 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 43 Year Old, 1973 at auction is £2,700. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £4,100, with a high of £28,000 and a low of £2,700. 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.
Bowmore 43 Year Old, 1973 is down 25% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 38.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore 43 Year Old, 1973 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 £4,100 (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 43 Year Old, 1973 has moved down 25%, with a current median hammer price of £4,100. The bottle has been observed at auction across 50 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 £2,700, 24-month median £4,100 — 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 43 Year Old, 1973 that hammers at £2,700 would cost the buyer approximately £3,402 all-in including buyer's premium.
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