latest hammer price
Auction lots
122
Houses
1
Last sold
154 days ago
Compass Box The General is a collectable Scotch whisky from Compass Box The General. Based on 122 recorded auction lots across 43 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,200, with the most recent sale at £1,600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £155 (low) to £1,900 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Compass Box The General is £1,467–£1,733 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Compass Box The General is down 15.8%, with a 6-month trend of +39.1% (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.
Compass Box The General is a whisky distillery. Compass Box The General is a no-age-statement bottling.
Compass Box The General 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 Compass Box The General 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.
Latest sale
£1,600
24-month median
£1,200
24-month high
£1,900
24-month low
£155
Estimated value · likely range
£1,467–£1,733 ±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
4 lots
Cadence
≈ every 91 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 22% of tracked bottles
Last seen
154 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £1,600 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £1,600 | 2 |
| July 2024 | £1,300 | 4 |
| May 2024 | £1,700 | 2 |
| September 2023 | £1,300 | 2 |
| July 2022 | £1,500 | 2 |
| April 2021 | £1,150 | 2 |
| December 2020 | £1,200 | 2 |
| November 2020 | £1,250 | 2 |
| October 2020 | £1,167 | 8 |
| August 2020 | £1,300 | 2 |
| July 2020 | £1,300 | 2 |
Compass Box The General appeared in 4 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 22% by auction activity among the 30,866 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Compass Box The General at auction is £1,600. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,200, with a high of £1,900 and a low of £155. 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.
Compass Box The General is down 15.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 39.1%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Compass Box The General 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 £1,200 (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 Compass Box The General has moved down 15.8%, with a current median hammer price of £1,200. The bottle has been observed at auction across 122 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 £1,600, 24-month median £1,200 — 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 Compass Box The General that hammers at £1,600 would cost the buyer approximately £2,016 all-in including buyer's premium.
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