latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
70
Houses
2
Last sold
25 days ago
Glenfarclas 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V is a collectable Scotch whisky from Glenfarclas. Based on 70 recorded auction lots across 33 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £410, with the most recent sale at £490. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £250 (low) to £600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Glenfarclas 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V is £451–£529 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Glenfarclas 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V is down 16.9%, with a 6-month trend of -15.5% (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 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1986.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1986), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as buttscollectorfamilyrefillseriessherry, 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
£490
24-month median
£410
24-month high
£600
24-month low
£250
Estimated value · likely range
£451–£529 ±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.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
14 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per month
Trend
▲ 250% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 5% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£408
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 | 50 | £400 | £413 |
| Whisky Hammer | 8 | £400 | £405 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £490 | 2 |
| July 2026 | £410 | 2 |
| June 2026 | £460 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £440 | 3 |
| February 2026 | £250 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £440 | 3 |
| September 2025 | £580 | 2 |
| June 2025 | £490 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £400 | 2 |
| September 2024 | £560 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £480 | 2 |
| March 2024 | £460 | 4 |
Glenfarclas 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V appeared in 14 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is up 250% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 5% 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 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V at auction is £490. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £410, with a high of £600 and a low of £250. 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 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V is down 16.9% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 15.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Glenfarclas 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V 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 £410 (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 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V has moved down 16.9%, with a current median hammer price of £410. The bottle has been observed at auction across 70 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 £490, 24-month median £410 — 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 1986 Refill Sherry Butts Family Collector Series V that hammers at £490 would cost the buyer approximately £617 all-in including buyer's premium.
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