latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
21
Houses
2
Last sold
34 days ago
SMWS 24.188 Macallan 2008 16 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 16 years. Based on 21 recorded auction lots across 8 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £160, with the most recent sale at £165. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £140 (low) to £230 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for SMWS 24.188 Macallan 2008 16 Year Old is £152–£178 (±8% around the latest sale).
Macallan is a whisky distillery. SMWS 24.188 Macallan 2008 16 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 16 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 24x188) 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.
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Latest sale
£165
24-month median
£160
24-month high
£230
24-month low
£140
Estimated value · likely range
£152–£178 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
21 lots
Cadence
≈ 2 per month
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 3% of tracked bottles
Last seen
34 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£155
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 10 | £180 | £163 |
| Whisky Hammer | 3 | £140 | £155 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £165 | 2 |
| April 2026 | £140 | 4 |
| March 2026 | £140 | 1 |
| January 2026 | £170 | 4 |
| December 2025 | £155 | 4 |
| November 2025 | £155 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £185 | 4 |
| September 2025 | £230 | 1 |
SMWS 24.188 Macallan 2008 16 Year Old appeared in 21 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 3% 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 24.188 Macallan 2008 16 Year Old at auction is £165. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £160, with a high of £230 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for SMWS 24.188 Macallan 2008 16 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £140 to £230 (median £160).
SMWS 24.188 Macallan 2008 16 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 £160 (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%.
SMWS 24.188 Macallan 2008 16 Year Old has appeared in 21 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £160. 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 £165, 24-month median £160 — 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 24.188 Macallan 2008 16 Year Old that hammers at £165 would cost the buyer approximately £208 all-in including buyer's premium.
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