latest hammer price
Auction lots
17
Houses
1
Last sold
41 days ago
Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Linkwood aged 12 years. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £230, with the most recent sale at £290. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £170 (low) to £310 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) is £262–£318 (±10% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) is up 26.1%, with a 6-month trend of +16% (up). 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.
Linkwood is a whisky distillery. Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) Whisky Auction is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Linkwood rather than by built-in rarity.
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
£290
24-month median
£230
24-month high
£310
24-month low
£170
Estimated value · likely range
£262–£318 ±10%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
4 lots
Cadence
≈ every 91 days
Trend
▼ 20% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 22% of tracked bottles
Last seen
41 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £290 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £310 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £240 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £170 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £190 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £230 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £250 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £230 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £210 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £220 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £200 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £310 | 1 |
More from Linkwood
Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) appeared in 4 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 20% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 22% 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 Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) at auction is £290. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £230, with a high of £310 and a low of £170. 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.
Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) is up 26.1% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 16%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) 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 £230 (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 Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) has moved up 26.1%, with a current median hammer price of £230. The bottle has been observed at auction across 17 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 £290, 24-month median £230 — 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 Linkwood 12 Year Old (Manager's Dram) that hammers at £290 would cost the buyer approximately £365 all-in including buyer's premium.
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