latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
28
Houses
2
Last sold
180 days ago
Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' is a collectable Scotch whisky from Kanosuke, bottled in 2018. Based on 28 recorded auction lots across 18 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £208, with the most recent sale at £210. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £75 (low) to £340 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' is £171–£249 (±19% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' is down 8.7%, with a 6-month trend of +31.3% (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.
Kanosuke is a whisky distillery. Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2018.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 001) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
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
£210
24-month median
£208
24-month high
£340
24-month low
£75
Estimated value · likely range
£171–£249 ±19%
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
Trend
▲ 0% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
180 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£210
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 | 12 | £210 | £220 |
| Whisky Hammer | 7 | £75 | £160 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £210 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £75 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £100 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £125 | 2 |
| April 2025 | £150 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £205 | 2 |
| April 2024 | £160 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £200 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £200 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £300 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £250 | 1 |
| January 2023 | £240 | 1 |
More from Kanosuke
Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' 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 is up 0% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 28% 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 Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' at auction is £210. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £208, with a high of £340 and a low of £75. 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.
Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' is down 8.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 31.3%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' 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 £208 (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 Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' has moved down 8.7%, with a current median hammer price of £208. The bottle has been observed at auction across 28 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 £210, 24-month median £208 — 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 Kanosuke 2018 Artist Edition #001 'Mariko Hirasawa' that hammers at £210 would cost the buyer approximately £265 all-in including buyer's premium.
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