latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
41
Houses
2
Last sold
165 days ago
Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bunnahabhain. Based on 41 recorded auction lots across 33 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,600, with the most recent sale at £1,525. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £540 (low) to £2,200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance is £1,334–£1,716 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance is down 23.7%, with a 6-month trend of -23.7% (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.
Bunnahabhain is a whisky distillery. Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1968.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1968), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as acquaintanceauld, 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.
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Latest sale
£1,525
24-month median
£1,600
24-month high
£2,200
24-month low
£540
Estimated value · likely range
£1,334–£1,716 ±13%
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
165 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£1,600
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 | £1,800 | £1,600 |
| Whisky Hammer | 7 | £1,525 | £1,625 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £1,525 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £1,800 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £1,800 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £1,700 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £1,550 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £1,700 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £2,000 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £1,800 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £2,100 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £1,625 | 1 |
| October 2022 | £2,100 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £1,800 | 1 |
More from Bunnahabhain
Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance 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 Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance at auction is £1,525. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,600, with a high of £2,200 and a low of £540. 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.
Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance is down 23.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 23.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance 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 £1,600 (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 Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance has moved down 23.7%, with a current median hammer price of £1,600. The bottle has been observed at auction across 41 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 £1,525, 24-month median £1,600 — 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 Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance that hammers at £1,525 would cost the buyer approximately £1,922 all-in including buyer's premium.
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