latest hammer price
Auction lots
25
Houses
1
Last sold
26 days ago
SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Hanyu aged 13 years. Based on 25 recorded auction lots across 22 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £510, with the most recent sale at £1,200. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £165 (low) to £1,600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 Year Old is £720–£1,680 (±40% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 Year Old is up 140%, with a 6-month trend of +71.4% (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.
Hanyu is a whisky distillery. Hanyu SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 13 years old.
Closed / ghost distillery
Hanyu closed in 2000; its original stock is finite and highly sought after, particularly the Ichiro's Malt 'Card' bottlings.
Named / limited release
Released as SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 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
£1,200
24-month median
£510
24-month high
£1,600
24-month low
£165
Estimated value · likely range
£720–£1,680 ±40%
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
26 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £1,200 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £1,500 | 1 |
| May 2024 | £1,600 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £1,500 | 1 |
| June 2019 | £1,200 | 1 |
| October 2018 | £925 | 2 |
| December 2017 | £700 | 1 |
| July 2017 | £560 | 1 |
| May 2017 | £560 | 1 |
| April 2017 | £600 | 1 |
| August 2016 | £520 | 1 |
| July 2016 | £500 | 1 |
SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 Year Old 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 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 Year Old at auction is £1,200. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £510, with a high of £1,600 and a low of £165. 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.
SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 Year Old is up 140% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 71.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 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 £510 (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 SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 Year Old has moved up 140%, with a current median hammer price of £510. The bottle has been observed at auction across 25 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 £1,200, 24-month median £510 — 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 SMWS 131.2 Hanyu 13 Year Old that hammers at £1,200 would cost the buyer approximately £1,512 all-in including buyer's premium.
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