latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
9
Houses
2
Last sold
81 days ago
Highland Park - 42 Year Old (1967) John Scott's is a collectable Scotch whisky from Highland Park aged 42 years. Based on 9 recorded auction lots across 5 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,575, with the most recent sale at £1,500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,500 (low) to £2,750 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Highland Park - 42 Year Old (1967) John Scott's is £1,024–£1,976 (±32% around the latest sale).
Highland Park is a whisky distillery. Highland Park - 42 Year Old (1967) John Scott's is an age-stated bottling at 42 years old, distilled in 1967.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1967), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 42-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as johnscott, 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
£1,500
24-month median
£1,575
24-month high
£2,750
24-month low
£1,500
Estimated value · likely range
£1,024–£1,976 ±32%
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
7 lots
Cadence
≈ every 52 days
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 13% of tracked bottles
Last seen
81 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Whisky Hammer · Scotch Whisky Auctions
Cross-house median
£1,575
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisky Hammer | 6 | £1,575 | £1,675 |
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 3 | £1,500 | £1,500 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £1,500 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £1,500 | 2 |
| March 2026 | £1,575 | 4 |
| August 2025 | £2,500 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £2,750 | 1 |
More from Highland Park
Highland Park - 42 Year Old (1967) John Scott's appeared in 7 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 13% 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 Highland Park - 42 Year Old (1967) John Scott's at auction is £1,500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,575, with a high of £2,750 and a low of £1,500. 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 Highland Park - 42 Year Old (1967) John Scott's, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £1,500 to £2,750 (median £1,575).
Highland Park - 42 Year Old (1967) John Scott's 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 £1,575 (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%.
Highland Park - 42 Year Old (1967) John Scott's has appeared in 9 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £1,575. 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 £1,500, 24-month median £1,575 — 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 Highland Park - 42 Year Old (1967) John Scott's that hammers at £1,500 would cost the buyer approximately £1,890 all-in including buyer's premium.
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