latest hammer price
Auction lots
24
Houses
1
Last sold
27 days ago
Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenfarclas. Based on 24 recorded auction lots across 14 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £3,000, with the most recent sale at £2,400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,400 (low) to £4,600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 is £2,039–£2,761 (±15% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 is down 14.3%, with a 6-month trend of -25% (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.
Glenfarclas is a whisky distillery. Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1955.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1955), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 2217) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
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
£2,400
24-month median
£3,000
24-month high
£4,600
24-month low
£2,400
Estimated value · likely range
£2,039–£2,761 ±15%
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
12 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per month
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 7% of tracked bottles
Last seen
27 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £2,400 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £2,650 | 2 |
| June 2026 | £4,600 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £3,200 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £3,200 | 1 |
| January 2026 | £4,600 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £3,200 | 2 |
| September 2025 | £2,400 | 2 |
| July 2025 | £2,800 | 2 |
| February 2024 | £2,800 | 2 |
| January 2024 | £3,400 | 2 |
| October 2022 | £4,000 | 2 |
Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 appeared in 12 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That puts it in the top 7% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 at auction is £2,400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £3,000, with a high of £4,600 and a low of £2,400. 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.
Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 is down 14.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 25%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 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 £3,000 (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%.
Over the past 12 months Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 has moved down 14.3%, with a current median hammer price of £3,000. The bottle has been observed at auction across 24 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 £2,400, 24-month median £3,000 — 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 Glenfarclas 1955 Family Cask #2217 that hammers at £2,400 would cost the buyer approximately £3,024 all-in including buyer's premium.
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