latest hammer price
Auction lots
5
Houses
1
Last sold
89 days ago
Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers is a collectable Scotch whisky from Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers aged 23 years. Based on 5 recorded auction lots across 5 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £210, with the most recent sale at £200. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £160 (low) to £260 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers is £184–£216 (±8% around the latest sale).
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Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers is a whisky distillery. Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers is an age-stated bottling at 23 years old, distilled in 1998.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1998), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 23-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
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
£200
24-month median
£210
24-month high
£260
24-month low
£160
Estimated value · likely range
£184–£216 ±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.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
89 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £200 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £160 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £230 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £260 | 1 |
| August 2021 | £210 | 1 |
Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 39% by auction activity among the 30,758 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers at auction is £200. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £210, with a high of £260 and a low of £160. 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 Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £160 to £260 (median £210).
Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers 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 £210 (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%.
Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers has appeared in 5 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £210. 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 £200, 24-month median £210 — 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 Caroni - 23 Year Old (1998) Thompson Brothers that hammers at £200 would cost the buyer approximately £252 all-in including buyer's premium.
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