latest hammer price
Auction lots
8
Houses
1
Last sold
16 days ago
Macallan 1946 52 Year Old Select Reserve With Certificate & Keys is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 52 years. Based on 8 recorded auction lots across 8 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £9,500, with the most recent sale at £8,000. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £6,800 (low) to £12,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan 1946 52 Year Old Select Reserve With Certificate & Keys is £6,895–£9,105 (±14% around the latest sale).
Macallan is a whisky distillery. Macallan 1946 52 Year Old Select Reserve With Certificate & Keys is an age-stated bottling at 52 years old, distilled in 1946.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1946), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 52-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as certificatekeysreserveselect, 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
£8,000
24-month median
£9,500
24-month high
£12,500
24-month low
£6,800
Estimated value · likely range
£6,895–£9,105 ±14%
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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 36% of tracked bottles
Last seen
16 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | £8,000 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £8,500 | 1 |
| February 2025 | £9,000 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £11,000 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £11,000 | 1 |
| January 2021 | £12,500 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £10,000 | 1 |
| October 2016 | £6,800 | 1 |
Macallan 1946 52 Year Old Select Reserve With Certificate & Keys appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 36% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Macallan 1946 52 Year Old Select Reserve With Certificate & Keys at auction is £8,000. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £9,500, with a high of £12,500 and a low of £6,800. 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 Macallan 1946 52 Year Old Select Reserve With Certificate & Keys, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £6,800 to £12,500 (median £9,500).
Macallan 1946 52 Year Old Select Reserve With Certificate & Keys 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 £9,500 (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%.
Macallan 1946 52 Year Old Select Reserve With Certificate & Keys has appeared in 8 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £9,500. 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 £8,000, 24-month median £9,500 — 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 1946 52 Year Old Select Reserve With Certificate & Keys that hammers at £8,000 would cost the buyer approximately £10,080 all-in including buyer's premium.
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