latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
21
Houses
2
Last sold
54 days ago
Laphroaig - 33 Year Old (Strong Characters) Volume 1 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Laphroaig aged 33 years. Based on 21 recorded auction lots across 19 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £880, with the most recent sale at £370. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £370 (low) to £1,075 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Laphroaig - 33 Year Old (Strong Characters) Volume 1 is £278–£463 (±25% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Laphroaig - 33 Year Old (Strong Characters) Volume 1 is down 63%, with a 6-month trend of -45.6% (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 - 33 Year Old (Strong Characters) Volume 1 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 charactersstrongvolume, 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.
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Latest sale
£370
24-month median
£880
24-month high
£1,075
24-month low
£370
Estimated value · likely range
£278–£463 ±25%
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
14 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per month
Trend
▲ 40% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 5% of tracked bottles
Last seen
54 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Whisky Hammer · Scotch Whisky Auctions
Cross-house median
£600
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisky Hammer | 21 | £370 | £820 |
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 14 | £500 | £520 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £370 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £490 | 3 |
| November 2025 | £400 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £700 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £450 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £820 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £680 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £660 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £660 | 1 |
| October 2022 | £1,000 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £880 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £1,010 | 1 |
More from Laphroaig
Laphroaig - 33 Year Old (Strong Characters) Volume 1 appeared in 14 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 40% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 5% by auction activity among the 29,926 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) Volume 1 at auction is £370. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £880, with a high of £1,075 and a low of £370. 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 - 33 Year Old (Strong Characters) Volume 1 is down 63% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 45.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Laphroaig - 33 Year Old (Strong Characters) Volume 1 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 £880 (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 - 33 Year Old (Strong Characters) Volume 1 has moved down 63%, with a current median hammer price of £880. The bottle has been observed at auction across 21 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 £370, 24-month median £880 — 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) Volume 1 that hammers at £370 would cost the buyer approximately £466 all-in including buyer's premium.
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