latest hammer price
Auction lots
1
Houses
1
Last sold
35 days ago
Port Ellen 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co is a collectable Scotch whisky from Port Ellen aged 13 years. Based on 1 recorded auction lots across 1 month of trading data, the current median hammer price is £380, with the most recent sale at £380. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £380 (low) to £380 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Port Ellen 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co is £323–£437 (±15% around the latest sale).
Port Ellen is a whisky distillery. Port Ellen 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co is an age-stated bottling at 13 years old, distilled in 1979.
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 (1979), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Port Ellen 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co, 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
£380
24-month median
£380
24-month high
£380
24-month low
£380
Estimated value · likely range
£323–£437 ±15%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
35 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Only one auction sale on record so far — £380 in July 2026. We need at least two monthly data points to chart a trend, so check back after more sales.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £380 | 1 |
Port Ellen 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 98% 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 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co at auction is £380. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £380, with a high of £380 and a low of £380. 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 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £380 to £380 (median £380).
Port Ellen 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co 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 £380 (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 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co has appeared in 1 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £380. 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 £380, 24-month median £380 — 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 1979 13 Year Old Douglas Murdoch & Co that hammers at £380 would cost the buyer approximately £479 all-in including buyer's premium.
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