latest hammer price
Auction lots
27
Houses
1
Last sold
22 days ago
Prometheus 1988 28 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Prometheus aged 28 years. Based on 27 recorded auction lots across 14 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £330, with the most recent sale at £305. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £260 (low) to £460 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Prometheus 1988 28 Year Old is £281–£329 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Prometheus 1988 28 Year Old is down 33.7%, with a 6-month trend of +13% (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.
Prometheus is a whisky distillery. Prometheus 1988 28 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 28 years old, distilled in 1988.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1988), 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.
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
£305
24-month median
£330
24-month high
£460
24-month low
£260
Estimated value · likely range
£281–£329 ±8%
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
11 lots
Cadence
≈ every 33 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 7% of tracked bottles
Last seen
22 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £305 | 2 |
| July 2026 | £340 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £270 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £260 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £290 | 2 |
| February 2026 | £260 | 2 |
| September 2025 | £270 | 2 |
| June 2025 | £320 | 2 |
| May 2024 | £420 | 2 |
| November 2023 | £380 | 2 |
| August 2023 | £420 | 2 |
| July 2023 | £380 | 2 |
Prometheus 1988 28 Year Old appeared in 11 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That puts it in the top 7% by auction activity among the 30,758 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Prometheus 1988 28 Year Old at auction is £305. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £330, with a high of £460 and a low of £260. 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.
Prometheus 1988 28 Year Old is down 33.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 13%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Prometheus 1988 28 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 £330 (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 Prometheus 1988 28 Year Old has moved down 33.7%, with a current median hammer price of £330. 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 £305, 24-month median £330 — 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 Prometheus 1988 28 Year Old that hammers at £305 would cost the buyer approximately £384 all-in including buyer's premium.
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