latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
36
Houses
2
Last sold
8 days ago
Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Dailuaine aged 30 years. Based on 36 recorded auction lots across 21 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £175, with the most recent sale at £270. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £75 (low) to £340 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask is £181–£359 (±33% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask is up 54.3%, with a 6-month trend of +8% (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.
Dailuaine is a whisky distillery. Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1973.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1973), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 30-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as caskfirst, 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.
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Latest sale
£270
24-month median
£175
24-month high
£340
24-month low
£75
Estimated value · likely range
£181–£359 ±33%
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
8 lots
Cadence
≈ every 46 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 11% of tracked bottles
Last seen
8 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£210
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 | 35 | £270 | £180 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £250 | £250 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £270 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £260 | 3 |
| February 2026 | £240 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £280 | 2 |
| August 2025 | £270 | 2 |
| March 2024 | £300 | 2 |
| September 2023 | £250 | 2 |
| April 2023 | £340 | 2 |
| December 2021 | £260 | 2 |
| August 2019 | £180 | 2 |
| April 2018 | £155 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £155 | 1 |
Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask appeared in 8 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 11% 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 Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask at auction is £270. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £175, with a high of £340 and a low of £75. 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.
Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask is up 54.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask 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 £175 (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 Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask has moved up 54.3%, with a current median hammer price of £175. The bottle has been observed at auction across 36 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 £270, 24-month median £175 — 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 Dailuaine 1973 30 Year Old First Cask that hammers at £270 would cost the buyer approximately £340 all-in including buyer's premium.
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