latest hammer price
Auction lots
92
Houses
1
Last sold
26 days ago
Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon is a collectable Scotch whisky from Laphroaig aged 30 years. Based on 92 recorded auction lots across 37 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,000, with the most recent sale at £700. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £650 (low) to £1,600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon is £613–£788 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon is down 33.3%, with a 6-month trend of -12.5% (down). 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.
Laphroaig is a whisky distillery. Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old.
Considerable age
A 30-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as buildinghunterianiconseq2story, 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
£700
24-month median
£1,000
24-month high
£1,600
24-month low
£650
Estimated value · likely range
£613–£788 ±13%
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
8 lots
Cadence
≈ every 46 days
Trend
▲ 0% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 11% of tracked bottles
Last seen
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £700 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £700 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £650 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £700 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £750 | 2 |
| July 2025 | £650 | 2 |
| February 2025 | £800 | 2 |
| January 2025 | £1,050 | 2 |
| December 2024 | £950 | 2 |
| June 2024 | £900 | 2 |
| May 2024 | £850 | 2 |
| April 2024 | £1,000 | 2 |
More from Laphroaig
Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon appeared in 8 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is up 0% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 11% 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 Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon at auction is £700. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,000, with a high of £1,600 and a low of £650. 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.
Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon is down 33.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 12.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon 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 £1,000 (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 Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon has moved down 33.3%, with a current median hammer price of £1,000. The bottle has been observed at auction across 92 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 £700, 24-month median £1,000 — 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 Laphroaig 30 Year Old Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building An Icon that hammers at £700 would cost the buyer approximately £882 all-in including buyer's premium.
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