latest hammer price
Auction lots
12
Houses
1
Last sold
25 days ago
Bunnahabhain 1980 45 Year Old Kingsbury is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bunnahabhain aged 45 years. Based on 12 recorded auction lots across 4 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £485, with the most recent sale at £470. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £440 (low) to £560 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bunnahabhain 1980 45 Year Old Kingsbury is £432–£508 (±8% around the latest sale).
Bunnahabhain is a whisky distillery. Bunnahabhain 1980 45 Year Old Kingsbury is an age-stated bottling at 45 years old, distilled in 1980.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1980), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 45-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as kingsbury, 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
£470
24-month median
£485
24-month high
£560
24-month low
£440
Estimated value · likely range
£432–£508 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
12 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per month
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 7% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £470 | 2 |
| July 2026 | £560 | 2 |
| May 2026 | £440 | 2 |
| April 2026 | £500 | 6 |
More from Bunnahabhain
Bunnahabhain 1980 45 Year Old Kingsbury appeared in 12 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That puts it in the top 7% 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 1980 45 Year Old Kingsbury at auction is £470. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £485, with a high of £560 and a low of £440. 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 Bunnahabhain 1980 45 Year Old Kingsbury, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £440 to £560 (median £485).
Bunnahabhain 1980 45 Year Old Kingsbury 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 £485 (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%.
Bunnahabhain 1980 45 Year Old Kingsbury has appeared in 12 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £485. 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 £470, 24-month median £485 — 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 1980 45 Year Old Kingsbury that hammers at £470 would cost the buyer approximately £592 all-in including buyer's premium.
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