latest hammer price
Auction lots
59
Houses
1
Last sold
208 days ago
Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 18 years. Based on 59 recorded auction lots across 42 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,925, with the most recent sale at £1,700. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £620 (low) to £2,900 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 is £1,488–£1,913 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 is down 15%, with a 6-month trend of -41.4% (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.
Macallan is a whisky distillery. Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 is an age-stated bottling at 18 years old, distilled in 1976.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1976), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 18-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as Macallan 18 Year Old 1976, 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
£1,700
24-month median
£1,925
24-month high
£2,900
24-month low
£620
Estimated value · likely range
£1,488–£1,913 ±13%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
208 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | £1,700 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £1,700 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £1,700 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £1,500 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £2,500 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £2,600 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £2,900 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £2,800 | 1 |
| March 2021 | £2,300 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £2,200 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £2,000 | 1 |
| September 2020 | £2,200 | 1 |
Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 98% 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 Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 at auction is £1,700. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,925, with a high of £2,900 and a low of £620. 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.
Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 is down 15% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 41.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 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 £1,925 (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 Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 has moved down 15%, with a current median hammer price of £1,925. The bottle has been observed at auction across 59 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 £1,700, 24-month median £1,925 — 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 Macallan 18 Year Old 1976 that hammers at £1,700 would cost the buyer approximately £2,142 all-in including buyer's premium.
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