latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
12
Houses
2
Last sold
50 days ago
Brora - 40 Year Old (1978) 200th Anniversary is a collectable Scotch whisky from Brora aged 40 years. Based on 12 recorded auction lots across 12 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,225, with the most recent sale at £2,600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,300 (low) to £3,950 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Brora - 40 Year Old (1978) 200th Anniversary is £2,182–£3,018 (±16% around the latest sale).
Brora is a whisky distillery. Brora - 40 Year Old (1978) 200th Anniversary is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old, distilled in 1978.
Closed / ghost distillery
Brora was silent from 1983 until its 2021 revival, so whisky from the original distillery is finite and keenly collected.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1978), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 40-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
£2,600
24-month median
£3,225
24-month high
£3,950
24-month low
£2,300
Estimated value · likely range
£2,182–£3,018 ±16%
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
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
50 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Whisky Hammer · Whisky Auctioneer
Cross-house median
£3,225
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisky Hammer | 11 | £2,300 | £3,450 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 1 | £2,600 | £2,600 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £2,600 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £2,300 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £2,500 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £2,550 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £2,550 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £3,700 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £3,500 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £3,550 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £3,000 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £3,950 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £3,850 | 1 |
| December 2021 | £3,450 | 1 |
Brora - 40 Year Old (1978) 200th Anniversary appeared in 3 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 28% 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 Brora - 40 Year Old (1978) 200th Anniversary at auction is £2,600. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,225, with a high of £3,950 and a low of £2,300. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Brora - 40 Year Old (1978) 200th Anniversary, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £2,300 to £3,950 (median £3,225).
Brora - 40 Year Old (1978) 200th Anniversary 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 £3,225 (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%.
Brora - 40 Year Old (1978) 200th Anniversary has appeared in 12 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £3,225. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £2,600, 24-month median £3,225 — 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 Brora - 40 Year Old (1978) 200th Anniversary that hammers at £2,600 would cost the buyer approximately £3,276 all-in including buyer's premium.
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