latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
14
Houses
2
Last sold
19 days ago
North British 40 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from North British aged 40 years. Based on 14 recorded auction lots across 13 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £160, with the most recent sale at £210. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £120 (low) to £270 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for North British 40 Year Old is £184–£236 (±13% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, North British 40 Year Old is up 61.5%, with a 6-month trend of +40% (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.
North British is a whisky distillery. North British 40 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old.
Considerable age
A 40-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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
£210
24-month median
£160
24-month high
£270
24-month low
£120
Estimated value · likely range
£184–£236 ±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
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Trend
▼ 33% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 36% of tracked bottles
Last seen
19 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£160
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 | 12 | £210 | £155 |
| Whisky Hammer | 1 | £270 | £270 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | £210 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £270 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £145 | 2 |
| June 2025 | £210 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £170 | 1 |
| September 2020 | £160 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £150 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £130 | 1 |
| December 2018 | £120 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £180 | 1 |
| July 2017 | £160 | 1 |
| December 2016 | £140 | 1 |
More from North British
North British 40 Year Old 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 is down 33% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. 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 North British 40 Year Old at auction is £210. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £160, with a high of £270 and a low of £120. 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.
North British 40 Year Old is up 61.5% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 40%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
North British 40 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 £160 (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 North British 40 Year Old has moved up 61.5%, with a current median hammer price of £160. The bottle has been observed at auction across 14 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 £210, 24-month median £160 — 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 North British 40 Year Old that hammers at £210 would cost the buyer approximately £265 all-in including buyer's premium.
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