latest hammer price
Auction lots
77
Houses
1
Last sold
26 days ago
Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage is a collectable Scotch whisky from Old Pulteney. Based on 77 recorded auction lots across 37 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £150, with the most recent sale at £140. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £100 (low) to £410 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage is £120–£160 (±14% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage is down 6.7%, with a 6-month trend of -30% (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.
Old Pulteney is a whisky distillery. Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1990.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1990), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£140
24-month median
£150
24-month high
£410
24-month low
£100
Estimated value · likely range
£120–£160 ±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
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £140 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £170 | 2 |
| May 2025 | £200 | 2 |
| July 2024 | £150 | 2 |
| November 2023 | £180 | 2 |
| December 2022 | £150 | 2 |
| August 2022 | £200 | 2 |
| February 2022 | £200 | 2 |
| January 2022 | £170 | 2 |
| August 2021 | £160 | 1 |
| July 2021 | £160 | 1 |
| June 2021 | £150 | 4 |
More from Old Pulteney
Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage 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 Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage at auction is £140. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £150, with a high of £410 and a low of £100. 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.
Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage is down 6.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 30%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage 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 £150 (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 Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage has moved down 6.7%, with a current median hammer price of £150. The bottle has been observed at auction across 77 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 £140, 24-month median £150 — 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 Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage that hammers at £140 would cost the buyer approximately £176 all-in including buyer's premium.
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