latest hammer price
Auction lots
1
Houses
1
Last sold
13 days ago
Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ladyburn aged 40 years. Based on 1 recorded auction lots across 1 month of trading data, the current median hammer price is £850, with the most recent sale at £850. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £850 (low) to £850 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199 is £723–£978 (±15% around the latest sale).
Ladyburn is a whisky distillery. Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199 is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old, distilled in 1974.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1974), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 40-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199, 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
£850
24-month median
£850
24-month high
£850
24-month low
£850
Estimated value · likely range
£723–£978 ±15%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 97% of tracked bottles
Last seen
13 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Only one auction sale on record so far — £850 in August 2026. We need at least two monthly data points to chart a trend, so check back after more sales.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £850 | 1 |
Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199 appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 97% 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 Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199 at auction is £850. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £850, with a high of £850 and a low of £850. 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 Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £850 to £850 (median £850).
Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199 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 £850 (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%.
Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199 has appeared in 1 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £850. 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 £850, 24-month median £850 — 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 Ladyburn 1974 40 Year Old Cask #89/199 that hammers at £850 would cost the buyer approximately £1,071 all-in including buyer's premium.
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