latest hammer price · blended across 3 auction houses
Auction lots
16
Houses
3
Last sold
165 days ago
Linkwood 1974 27 Year Old First Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Linkwood aged 27 years. Based on 16 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £130, with the most recent sale at £240. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £100 (low) to £240 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Linkwood 1974 27 Year Old First Cask is £152–£328 (±37% around the latest sale).
Linkwood is a whisky distillery. Linkwood 1974 27 Year Old First Cask is an age-stated bottling at 27 years old, distilled in 1974.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1974), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 27-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as caskfirst, 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
£240
24-month median
£130
24-month high
£240
24-month low
£100
Estimated value · likely range
£152–£328 ±37%
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
7 lots
Cadence
≈ every 52 days
Houses
3
Activity rank
top 13% of tracked bottles
Last seen
165 days ago
Rarity signal: few lots but spread across 3 houses — sellers seek this bottle out.
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer · whisky.auction
Cross-house median
£190
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 3 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 16 | £240 | £140 |
| Whisky Hammer | 5 | £230 | £230 |
| whisky.auction | 1 | £230 | £230 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £240 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £200 | 2 |
| October 2024 | £210 | 2 |
| December 2020 | £150 | 2 |
| March 2018 | £130 | 2 |
| August 2016 | £105 | 2 |
| October 2015 | £100 | 2 |
| March 2015 | £105 | 1 |
| February 2015 | £105 | 1 |
Linkwood 1974 27 Year Old First Cask appeared in 7 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). It has traded at 3 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 13% 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 1974 27 Year Old First Cask at auction is £240. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £130, with a high of £240 and a low of £100. 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 Linkwood 1974 27 Year Old First Cask, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £100 to £240 (median £130).
Linkwood 1974 27 Year Old First Cask 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 £130 (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%.
Linkwood 1974 27 Year Old First Cask has appeared in 16 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £130. 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 £240, 24-month median £130 — 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 1974 27 Year Old First Cask that hammers at £240 would cost the buyer approximately £302 all-in including buyer's premium.
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