latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
102
Houses
2
Last sold
40 days ago
Bushmills 16 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bushmills aged 16 years. Based on 102 recorded auction lots across 59 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £60, with the most recent sale at £60. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £35 (low) to £95 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bushmills 16 Year Old is £53–£68 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bushmills 16 Year Old is down 20%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (up). 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.
Bushmills is a whisky distillery. Bushmills 16 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 16 years old.
Bushmills 16 Year Old is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Bushmills rather than by built-in rarity.
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
£60
24-month median
£60
24-month high
£95
24-month low
£35
Estimated value · likely range
£53–£68 ±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
6 lots
Cadence
≈ every 61 days
Trend
▲ 100% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 14% of tracked bottles
Last seen
40 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£60
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 | 59 | £60 | £60 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £50 | £50 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £60 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £50 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £60 | 3 |
| May 2025 | £60 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £55 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £55 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £60 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £70 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £73 | 2 |
| July 2023 | £60 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £55 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £60 | 1 |
Bushmills 16 Year Old appeared in 6 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is up 100% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 14% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bushmills 16 Year Old at auction is £60. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £60, with a high of £95 and a low of £35. 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.
Bushmills 16 Year Old is down 20% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bushmills 16 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 £60 (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 Bushmills 16 Year Old has moved down 20%, with a current median hammer price of £60. The bottle has been observed at auction across 102 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 £60, 24-month median £60 — 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 Bushmills 16 Year Old that hammers at £60 would cost the buyer approximately £76 all-in including buyer's premium.
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