latest hammer price
Auction lots
54
Houses
1
Last sold
62 days ago
Smokehead is a collectable Scotch whisky from Smokehead. Based on 54 recorded auction lots across 47 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £25, with the most recent sale at £20. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £20 (low) to £38 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Smokehead is £18–£22 (±10% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Smokehead is down 20%, with a 6-month trend of -20% (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.
Smokehead is a whisky distillery. Smokehead is a no-age-statement bottling.
Smokehead is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Smokehead rather than by built-in rarity.
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
£20
24-month median
£25
24-month high
£38
24-month low
£20
Estimated value · likely range
£18–£22 ±10%
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
5 lots
Cadence
≈ every 73 days
Trend
▼ 29% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 17% of tracked bottles
Last seen
62 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £20 | 2 |
| June 2026 | £30 | 1 |
| March 2026 | £30 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £25 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £25 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £20 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £25 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £20 | 1 |
| March 2025 | £20 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £25 | 2 |
| July 2024 | £20 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £25 | 1 |
Smokehead appeared in 5 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 29% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 17% 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 Smokehead at auction is £20. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £25, with a high of £38 and a low of £20. 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.
Smokehead is down 20% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 20%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Smokehead 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 £25 (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 Smokehead has moved down 20%, with a current median hammer price of £25. The bottle has been observed at auction across 54 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 £20, 24-month median £25 — 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 Smokehead that hammers at £20 would cost the buyer approximately £25 all-in including buyer's premium.
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