latest hammer price
Auction lots
7
Houses
1
Last sold
26 days ago
Longmorn 1996 23 Year Old First Editions Authors’ Series Ralph Waldo Emerson is a collectable Scotch whisky from Longmorn aged 23 years. Based on 7 recorded auction lots across 4 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £265, with the most recent sale at £380. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £230 (low) to £380 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Longmorn 1996 23 Year Old First Editions Authors’ Series Ralph Waldo Emerson is £337–£423 (±11% around the latest sale).
Longmorn is a whisky distillery. Longmorn 1996 23 Year Old First Editions Authors’ Series Ralph Waldo Emerson is an age-stated bottling at 23 years old, distilled in 1996.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1996), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 23-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as authorseditionsemersonfirstralphserieswaldo, 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
£380
24-month median
£265
24-month high
£380
24-month low
£230
Estimated value · likely range
£337–£423 ±11%
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
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Trend
▼ 25% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £380 | 1 |
| November 2025 | £280 | 2 |
| April 2025 | £230 | 2 |
| January 2025 | £250 | 2 |
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Longmorn 1996 23 Year Old First Editions Authors’ Series Ralph Waldo Emerson appeared in 3 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 25% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 28% 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 Longmorn 1996 23 Year Old First Editions Authors’ Series Ralph Waldo Emerson at auction is £380. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £265, with a high of £380 and a low of £230. 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 Longmorn 1996 23 Year Old First Editions Authors’ Series Ralph Waldo Emerson, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £230 to £380 (median £265).
Longmorn 1996 23 Year Old First Editions Authors’ Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 £265 (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%.
Longmorn 1996 23 Year Old First Editions Authors’ Series Ralph Waldo Emerson has appeared in 7 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £265. 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 £380, 24-month median £265 — 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 Longmorn 1996 23 Year Old First Editions Authors’ Series Ralph Waldo Emerson that hammers at £380 would cost the buyer approximately £479 all-in including buyer's premium.
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