latest hammer price
Auction lots
45
Houses
1
Last sold
34 days ago
Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Rare Malts Linkwood aged 30 years. Based on 45 recorded auction lots across 34 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £360, with the most recent sale at £500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £140 (low) to £650 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 Year Old is £359–£641 (±28% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 Year Old is up 33.9%, with a 6-month trend of -23.1% (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.
Rare Malts Linkwood is a whisky distillery. Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1974.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1974), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 30-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 Year Old, 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
£500
24-month median
£360
24-month high
£650
24-month low
£140
Estimated value · likely range
£359–£641 ±28%
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
34 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £500 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £500 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £420 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £560 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £520 | 1 |
| January 2023 | £560 | 1 |
| October 2022 | £650 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £580 | 1 |
| July 2021 | £650 | 1 |
| August 2020 | £650 | 1 |
| March 2020 | £420 | 2 |
| February 2020 | £360 | 1 |
Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 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 puts it in the top 39% 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 Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 Year Old at auction is £500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £360, with a high of £650 and a low of £140. 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.
Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 Year Old is up 33.9% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 23.1%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 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 £360 (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 Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 Year Old has moved up 33.9%, with a current median hammer price of £360. The bottle has been observed at auction across 45 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 £500, 24-month median £360 — 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 Rare Malts Linkwood 1974 30 Year Old that hammers at £500 would cost the buyer approximately £630 all-in including buyer's premium.
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