latest hammer price
Auction lots
42
Houses
1
Last sold
244 days ago
J&B 1749 25 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from J&B aged 25 years. Based on 42 recorded auction lots across 17 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £110, with the most recent sale at £120. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £93 (low) to £150 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for J&B 1749 25 Year Old is £109–£131 (±9% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, J&B 1749 25 Year Old is up 29.7%, with a 6-month trend of +20% (up). 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.
J&B is a whisky distillery. J&B 1749 25 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old.
Considerable age
A 25-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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
£120
24-month median
£110
24-month high
£150
24-month low
£93
Estimated value · likely range
£109–£131 ±9%
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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
244 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £120 | 2 |
| July 2025 | £130 | 2 |
| June 2024 | £120 | 2 |
| June 2020 | £150 | 2 |
| February 2020 | £110 | 2 |
| November 2019 | £100 | 2 |
| September 2019 | £100 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £100 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £105 | 4 |
| July 2018 | £150 | 1 |
| June 2018 | £102 | 7 |
| April 2018 | £105 | 1 |
J&B 1749 25 Year Old appeared in 2 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 39% 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 J&B 1749 25 Year Old at auction is £120. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £110, with a high of £150 and a low of £93. 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.
J&B 1749 25 Year Old is up 29.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 20%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
J&B 1749 25 Year Old 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 £110 (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 J&B 1749 25 Year Old has moved up 29.7%, with a current median hammer price of £110. The bottle has been observed at auction across 42 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 £120, 24-month median £110 — 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 J&B 1749 25 Year Old that hammers at £120 would cost the buyer approximately £151 all-in including buyer's premium.
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