latest hammer price
Auction lots
17
Houses
1
Last sold
335 days ago
Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac is a collectable Scotch whisky from Hennessy Library Tome Red. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 14 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £183, with the most recent sale at £200. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £115 (low) to £260 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac is £173–£227 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac is up 73.9%, with a 6-month trend of -9.1% (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.
Hennessy Library Tome Red is a whisky distillery. Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac is a no-age-statement bottling.
Named / limited release
Released as Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac, 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
£200
24-month median
£183
24-month high
£260
24-month low
£115
Estimated value · likely range
£173–£227 ±13%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
335 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £200 | 3 |
| September 2019 | £190 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £175 | 2 |
| December 2018 | £170 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £230 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £200 | 1 |
| July 2018 | £220 | 1 |
| April 2018 | £165 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £175 | 1 |
| December 2017 | £260 | 1 |
| November 2017 | £140 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £165 | 1 |
Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac appeared in 3 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 28% by auction activity among the 30,758 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac at auction is £200. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £183, with a high of £260 and a low of £115. 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.
Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac is up 73.9% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 9.1%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac 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 £183 (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 Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac has moved up 73.9%, with a current median hammer price of £183. The bottle has been observed at auction across 17 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 £200, 24-month median £183 — 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 Hennessy Library Tome Red Book Cognac that hammers at £200 would cost the buyer approximately £252 all-in including buyer's premium.
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