latest hammer price
Auction lots
5
Houses
1
Last sold
427 days ago
Glenfarclas 1978 Family Cask #4004 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenfarclas. Based on 5 recorded auction lots across 5 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £500, with the most recent sale at £480. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £480 (low) to £750 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenfarclas 1978 Family Cask #4004 is £432–£528 (±10% around the latest sale).
Glenfarclas is a whisky distillery. Glenfarclas 1978 Family Cask #4004 is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1978.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1978), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Glenfarclas 1978 Family Cask #4004, 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.
Latest sale
£480
24-month median
£500
24-month high
£750
24-month low
£480
Estimated value · likely range
£432–£528 ±10%
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
0 lots
Last seen
427 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | £480 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £480 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £750 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £500 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £580 | 1 |
Glenfarclas 1978 Family Cask #4004 appeared in 0 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market).
The latest hammer price for Glenfarclas 1978 Family Cask #4004 at auction is £480. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £500, with a high of £750 and a low of £480. 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 Glenfarclas 1978 Family Cask #4004, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £480 to £750 (median £500).
Glenfarclas 1978 Family Cask #4004 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 £500 (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%.
Glenfarclas 1978 Family Cask #4004 has appeared in 5 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £500. 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 £480, 24-month median £500 — 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 1978 Family Cask #4004 that hammers at £480 would cost the buyer approximately £605 all-in including buyer's premium.
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