latest hammer price
Auction lots
11
Houses
1
Last sold
3 days ago
Laphroaig 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston is a collectable Scotch whisky from Laphroaig aged 33 years. Based on 11 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £500, with the most recent sale at £495. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £460 (low) to £650 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Laphroaig 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston is £455–£535 (±8% around the latest sale).
Laphroaig is a whisky distillery. Laphroaig 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston is an age-stated bottling at 33 years old.
Considerable age
A 33-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Laphroaig 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston, 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
£495
24-month median
£500
24-month high
£650
24-month low
£460
Estimated value · likely range
£455–£535 ±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.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
8 lots
Cadence
≈ every 46 days
Trend
▲ 167% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 11% of tracked bottles
Last seen
3 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £495 | 3 |
| July 2026 | £500 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £480 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £480 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £460 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £520 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £560 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £650 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £600 | 1 |
More from Laphroaig
Laphroaig 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston 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 167% 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 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston at auction is £495. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £500, with a high of £650 and a low of £460. 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 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £460 to £650 (median £500).
Laphroaig 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston 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 £500 (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 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston has appeared in 11 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £500. 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 £495, 24-month median £500 — 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 33 Year Old Strong Characters: Donald Johnston that hammers at £495 would cost the buyer approximately £624 all-in including buyer's premium.
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