latest hammer price · blended across 3 auction houses
Auction lots
22
Houses
3
Last sold
107 days ago
Macallan 1974 Anniversary Malt 25 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 25 years. Based on 22 recorded auction lots across 12 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,200, with the most recent sale at £1,975. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £1,400 (low) to £3,600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan 1974 Anniversary Malt 25 Year Old is £1,540–£2,410 (±22% around the latest sale).
Macallan is a whisky distillery. Macallan 1974 Anniversary Malt 25 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old, distilled in 1974.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1974), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 25-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as anniversary, 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
£1,975
24-month median
£2,200
24-month high
£3,600
24-month low
£1,400
Estimated value · likely range
£1,540–£2,410 ±22%
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
10 lots
Cadence
≈ every 37 days
Houses
3
Activity rank
top 8% of tracked bottles
Last seen
107 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 Auctioneer · whisky.auction
Cross-house median
£2,400
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 | £2,000 | £2,750 |
| Whisky Auctioneer | 3 | £1,850 | £1,850 |
| whisky.auction | 3 | £2,100 | £2,100 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | £1,975 | 2 |
| April 2026 | £1,800 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £2,000 | 1 |
| January 2026 | £2,200 | 4 |
| September 2025 | £2,900 | 2 |
| May 2024 | £2,200 | 2 |
| January 2024 | £2,900 | 2 |
| February 2023 | £3,200 | 2 |
| February 2021 | £3,600 | 2 |
| January 2019 | £2,600 | 2 |
| October 2017 | £1,400 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £1,400 | 1 |
Macallan 1974 Anniversary Malt 25 Year Old appeared in 10 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 8% 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 1974 Anniversary Malt 25 Year Old at auction is £1,975. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,200, with a high of £3,600 and a low of £1,400. 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 1974 Anniversary Malt 25 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £1,400 to £3,600 (median £2,200).
Macallan 1974 Anniversary Malt 25 Year Old 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 £2,200 (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 1974 Anniversary Malt 25 Year Old has appeared in 22 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,200. 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 £1,975, 24-month median £2,200 — 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 1974 Anniversary Malt 25 Year Old that hammers at £1,975 would cost the buyer approximately £2,489 all-in including buyer's premium.
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