latest hammer price
Auction lots
16
Houses
1
Last sold
89 days ago
J&B - Rare is a collectable Scotch whisky from J&B - Rare. Based on 16 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £20, with the most recent sale at £22. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £20 (low) to £27 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for J&B - Rare is £20–£24 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, J&B - Rare is up 0%, with a 6-month trend of +10% (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 - Rare is a whisky distillery. J&B - Rare is a no-age-statement bottling.
J&B - Rare is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for J&B - Rare rather than by built-in rarity.
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
£22
24-month median
£20
24-month high
£27
24-month low
£20
Estimated value · likely range
£20–£24 ±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.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
4 lots
Cadence
≈ every 91 days
Trend
▲ 0% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 22% of tracked bottles
Last seen
89 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £22 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £20 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £22 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £20 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £21 | 1 |
| February 2025 | £20 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £20 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £20 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £27 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £20 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £20 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £20 | 1 |
J&B - Rare appeared in 4 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is up 0% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 22% 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 - Rare at auction is £22. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £20, with a high of £27 and a low of £20. 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 - Rare is up 0% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 10%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
J&B - Rare 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 £20 (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 - Rare has moved up 0%, with a current median hammer price of £20. The bottle has been observed at auction across 16 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 £22, 24-month median £20 — 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 - Rare that hammers at £22 would cost the buyer approximately £28 all-in including buyer's premium.
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