latest hammer price
Auction lots
85
Houses
1
Last sold
53 days ago
SMWS 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 12 years. Based on 85 recorded auction lots across 25 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £214, with the most recent sale at £130. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £130 (low) to £480 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 Year Old is £91–£169 (±30% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, SMWS 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 Year Old is down 51.3%, with a 6-month trend of -23.5% (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.
Macallan is a whisky distillery. SMWS 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old, distilled in 2008.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (2008), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 24x161) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
Independent bottling
An independent bottling by smws, typically produced in far smaller numbers than an official distillery release.
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
£130
24-month median
£214
24-month high
£480
24-month low
£130
Estimated value · likely range
£91–£169 ±30%
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
Trend
▼ 80% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
53 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £130 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £150 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £160 | 1 |
| February 2025 | £160 | 2 |
| January 2025 | £160 | 2 |
| December 2024 | £170 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £170 | 2 |
| September 2024 | £170 | 2 |
| January 2024 | £165 | 2 |
| December 2023 | £170 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £190 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £280 | 1 |
SMWS 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 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 is down 80% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 39% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for SMWS 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 Year Old at auction is £130. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £214, with a high of £480 and a low of £130. 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 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 Year Old is down 51.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 23.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
SMWS 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 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 £214 (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 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 Year Old has moved down 51.3%, with a current median hammer price of £214. The bottle has been observed at auction across 85 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 £130, 24-month median £214 — 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 24.161 Macallan 2008 12 Year Old that hammers at £130 would cost the buyer approximately £164 all-in including buyer's premium.
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