latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
27
Houses
2
Last sold
3 days ago
Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macduff aged 28 years. Based on 27 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £180, with the most recent sale at £220. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £85 (low) to £240 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask is £170–£270 (±23% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask is up 158.8%, with a 6-month trend of +15.8% (up). 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.
Macduff is a whisky distillery. Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask is an age-stated bottling at 28 years old, distilled in 1973.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1973), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 28-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as caskfirst, 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
£220
24-month median
£180
24-month high
£240
24-month low
£85
Estimated value · likely range
£170–£270 ±23%
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
7 lots
Cadence
≈ every 52 days
Trend
▼ 12% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 13% of tracked bottles
Last seen
3 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£190
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 25 | £220 | £190 |
| Whisky Hammer | 7 | £250 | £190 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £220 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £240 | 2 |
| October 2025 | £180 | 2 |
| August 2025 | £220 | 2 |
| April 2025 | £190 | 2 |
| December 2024 | £230 | 2 |
| October 2024 | £190 | 2 |
| March 2024 | £210 | 2 |
| March 2020 | £150 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £150 | 1 |
| October 2018 | £160 | 2 |
| November 2017 | £115 | 2 |
Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask appeared in 7 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is down 12% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 13% 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 Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask at auction is £220. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £180, with a high of £240 and a low of £85. 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.
Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask is up 158.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 15.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask 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 £180 (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 Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask has moved up 158.8%, with a current median hammer price of £180. The bottle has been observed at auction across 27 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 £220, 24-month median £180 — 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 Macduff 1973 28 Year Old First Cask that hammers at £220 would cost the buyer approximately £277 all-in including buyer's premium.
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