latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
10
Houses
2
Last sold
93 days ago
Dalmore Rare Vintage (1980) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Dalmore. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 7 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,000, with the most recent sale at £900. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £410 (low) to £1,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Dalmore Rare Vintage (1980) is £731–£1,069 (±19% around the latest sale).
Dalmore is a whisky distillery. Dalmore Rare Vintage (1980) is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1980.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1980), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£900
24-month median
£1,000
24-month high
£1,400
24-month low
£410
Estimated value · likely range
£731–£1,069 ±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
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 92% of tracked bottles
Last seen
93 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£950
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 | 7 | £900 | £1,000 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £660 | £660 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | £900 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £1,050 | 1 |
| September 2021 | £1,250 | 2 |
| April 2021 | £1,400 | 2 |
| September 2018 | £650 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £1,000 | 1 |
| October 2016 | £410 | 2 |
Dalmore Rare Vintage (1980) appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 92% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Dalmore Rare Vintage (1980) at auction is £900. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,000, with a high of £1,400 and a low of £410. 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 Dalmore Rare Vintage (1980), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £410 to £1,400 (median £1,000).
Dalmore Rare Vintage (1980) 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 £1,000 (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%.
Dalmore Rare Vintage (1980) has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £1,000. 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 £900, 24-month median £1,000 — 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 Dalmore Rare Vintage (1980) that hammers at £900 would cost the buyer approximately £1,134 all-in including buyer's premium.
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