latest hammer price
Auction lots
1
Houses
1
Last sold
59 days ago
Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old The King's Birthday Edition (1978) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old aged 45 years. Based on 1 recorded auction lots across 1 month of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,500, with the most recent sale at £2,500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,500 (low) to £2,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old The King's Birthday Edition (1978) is £2,125–£2,875 (±15% around the latest sale).
Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old is a whisky distillery. Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old The King's Birthday Edition is an age-stated bottling at 45 years old, distilled in 1978.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1978), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 45-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
£2,500
24-month median
£2,500
24-month high
£2,500
24-month low
£2,500
Estimated value · likely range
£2,125–£2,875 ±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 97% of tracked bottles
Last seen
59 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Only one auction sale on record so far — £2,500 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 | £2,500 | 1 |
Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old The King's Birthday Edition (1978) 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 97% 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 Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old The King's Birthday Edition (1978) at auction is £2,500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,500, with a high of £2,500 and a low of £2,500. 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 Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old The King's Birthday Edition (1978), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £2,500 to £2,500 (median £2,500).
Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old The King's Birthday Edition (1978) 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 £2,500 (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%.
Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old The King's Birthday Edition (1978) has appeared in 1 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,500. 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 £2,500, 24-month median £2,500 — 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 Royal Lochnagar 1978 Balmoral 45 Year Old The King's Birthday Edition (1978) that hammers at £2,500 would cost the buyer approximately £3,150 all-in including buyer's premium.
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