latest hammer price
Auction lots
11
Houses
1
Last sold
25 days ago
Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini is a collectable Scotch whisky from Port Ellen aged 17 years. Based on 11 recorded auction lots across 11 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £50, with the most recent sale at £50. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £40 (low) to £100 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini is £40–£60 (±20% around the latest sale).
Port Ellen is a whisky distillery. Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini is an age-stated bottling at 17 years old, distilled in 1974.
Closed / ghost distillery
Port Ellen closed in 1983; bottlings from its original era are finite and command a scarcity premium at auction.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1974), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini 5cl, 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
£50
24-month median
£50
24-month high
£100
24-month low
£40
Estimated value · likely range
£40–£60 ±20%
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
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
25 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £50 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £55 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £100 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £80 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £40 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £100 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £40 | 1 |
| June 2018 | £45 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £50 | 1 |
| November 2017 | £55 | 1 |
| August 2017 | £50 | 1 |
More from Port Ellen
Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini 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 puts it in the top 39% 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 Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini at auction is £50. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £50, with a high of £100 and a low of £40. 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 Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £40 to £100 (median £50).
Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini 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 £50 (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%.
Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini has appeared in 11 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £50. 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 £50, 24-month median £50 — 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 Port Ellen 1974 17 Year Old Signatory Mini that hammers at £50 would cost the buyer approximately £63 all-in including buyer's premium.
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