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Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old

£11,500

latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses

Rare at auction· 2 lots a year

Auction lots

10

Houses

2

Last sold

50 days ago

Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 44 years. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 10 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £10,500, with the most recent sale at £11,500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £7,200 (low) to £13,000 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old is £10,104–£12,896 12% around the latest sale).

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About Bowmore

Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 44 years old, distilled in 1964.

What drives this bottle's value

  • Single vintage

    Distilled in a single year (1964), so the available batch is inherently finite.

  • Considerable age

    A 44-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.

  • Named / limited release

    Released as gold, 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.

Release & bottling facts

Distillery
Bowmore
Age
44 years
Vintage
1964
Edition
Gold
Bottle size
700ml

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Latest sale

£11,500

24-month median

£10,500

24-month high

£13,000

24-month low

£7,200

Estimated value · likely range

£10,104–£12,896 ±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.

Market presence

last 12 months

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

50 days ago

Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.

Seen across auction houses

Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Auctioneer

Cross-house median

£10,500

Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.

Auction housePrice pointsLatest hammerMedian
Scotch Whisky Auctions9£9,500£10,500
Whisky Auctioneer1£11,500£11,500
4.5%vs 6 months ago

Price history (monthly median)

£6,984£10,187£13,390Nov 17May 19Nov 25Jul 26

Recent auction results

MonthMedianLots
July 2026£11,5001
November 2025£9,5001
February 2020£13,0001
January 2020£10,5001
November 2019£10,5001
June 2019£12,0001
May 2019£11,0001
January 2018£7,8001
December 2017£7,2001
November 2017£8,6001

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Frequently asked questions

How rare is Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old at auction?

Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old 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.

What is the current auction price of Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old?

The latest hammer price for Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old at auction is £11,500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £10,500, with a high of £13,000 and a low of £7,200. 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.

How much has Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old changed in value over the past year?

wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £7,200 to £13,000 (median £10,500).

Where can I sell Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old?

Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old 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 £10,500 (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%.

Is Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old a good investment?

Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £10,500. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.

How does wsky1 calculate the price of Bowmore Gold 1964 44 Year Old?

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 £11,500, 24-month median £10,500 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.

Does the price include 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 Gold 1964 44 Year Old that hammers at £11,500 would cost the buyer approximately £14,490 all-in including buyer's premium.

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