latest hammer price
Auction lots
21
Houses
1
Last sold
54 days ago
Macallan Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan. Based on 21 recorded auction lots across 18 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,400, with the most recent sale at £1,400. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £620 (low) to £2,700 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail is £1,213–£1,588 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Macallan Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail is down 12.5%, with a 6-month trend of -17.6% (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 Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1970.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1970), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Macallan Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail, 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
£1,400
24-month median
£1,400
24-month high
£2,700
24-month low
£620
Estimated value · likely range
£1,213–£1,588 ±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.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
54 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £1,400 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £1,500 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £1,800 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £1,600 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £1,900 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £2,700 | 1 |
| January 2021 | £1,700 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £1,400 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £1,200 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £1,600 | 2 |
| September 2019 | £1,300 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £1,100 | 1 |
Macallan Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail 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 puts it in the top 28% 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 Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail at auction is £1,400. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,400, with a high of £2,700 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 Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail is down 12.5% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 17.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Macallan Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail 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 £1,400 (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 Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail has moved down 12.5%, with a current median hammer price of £1,400. The bottle has been observed at auction across 21 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 £1,400, 24-month median £1,400 — 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 Speymalt 1970 Gordon & Macphail that hammers at £1,400 would cost the buyer approximately £1,764 all-in including buyer's premium.
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