latest hammer price
Auction lots
18
Houses
1
Last sold
534 days ago
Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign is a collectable Scotch whisky from Cambus aged 29 years. Based on 18 recorded auction lots across 17 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £80, with the most recent sale at £85. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £60 (low) to £150 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign is £69–£101 (±19% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign is up 21.4%, with a 6-month trend of -15% (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.
Cambus is a whisky distillery. Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign is an age-stated bottling at 29 years old, distilled in 1988.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1988), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 29-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign, 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
£85
24-month median
£80
24-month high
£150
24-month low
£60
Estimated value · likely range
£69–£101 ±19%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
0 lots
Last seen
534 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | £85 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £100 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £150 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £120 | 1 |
| November 2021 | £130 | 1 |
| July 2020 | £100 | 1 |
| March 2020 | £100 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £80 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £80 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £70 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £65 | 1 |
| September 2019 | £75 | 1 |
More from Cambus
Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign appeared in 0 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market).
The latest hammer price for Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign at auction is £85. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £80, with a high of £150 and a low of £60. 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.
Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign is up 21.4% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 15%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign 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 £80 (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 Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign has moved up 21.4%, with a current median hammer price of £80. The bottle has been observed at auction across 18 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 £85, 24-month median £80 — 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 Cambus 1988 29 Year Old The Sovereign that hammers at £85 would cost the buyer approximately £107 all-in including buyer's premium.
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