latest hammer price
Auction lots
1
Houses
1
Last sold
86 days ago
Laphroaig 30 Year Old The Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building an Icon, 1989 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Laphroaig aged 30 years. Based on 1 recorded auction lots across 1 month of trading data, the current median hammer price is £600, with the most recent sale at £600. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £600 (low) to £600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Laphroaig 30 Year Old The Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building an Icon, 1989 is £510–£690 (±15% around the latest sale).
Laphroaig is a whisky distillery. Laphroaig 30 Year Old The Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building an Icon, 1989 is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1989.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1989), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£600
24-month median
£600
24-month high
£600
24-month low
£600
Estimated value · likely range
£510–£690 ±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 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
86 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Only one auction sale on record so far — £600 in June 2026. We need at least two monthly data points to chart a trend, so check back after more sales.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £600 | 1 |
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Laphroaig 30 Year Old The Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building an Icon, 1989 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 98% 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 The Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building an Icon, 1989 at auction is £600. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £600, with a high of £600 and a low of £600. 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 Laphroaig 30 Year Old The Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building an Icon, 1989, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £600 to £600 (median £600).
Laphroaig 30 Year Old The Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building an Icon, 1989 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 £600 (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%.
Laphroaig 30 Year Old The Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building an Icon, 1989 has appeared in 1 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £600. 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 £600, 24-month median £600 — 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 The Ian Hunter Story Book 2: Building an Icon, 1989 that hammers at £600 would cost the buyer approximately £756 all-in including buyer's premium.
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