latest hammer price
Auction lots
31
Houses
1
Last sold
63 days ago
Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star is a collectable Scotch whisky from Spica aged 40 years. Based on 31 recorded auction lots across 18 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £160, with the most recent sale at £180. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £135 (low) to £220 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star is £166–£194 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star is up 12.5%, with a 6-month trend of -14.3% (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.
Spica is a whisky distillery. Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star is an age-stated bottling at 40 years old, distilled in 1980.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1980), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 40-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
£180
24-month median
£160
24-month high
£220
24-month low
£135
Estimated value · likely range
£166–£194 ±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.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 97% of tracked bottles
Last seen
63 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £180 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £170 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £140 | 1 |
| December 2023 | £150 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £170 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £160 | 1 |
| January 2023 | £210 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £150 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £170 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £170 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £150 | 1 |
| October 2021 | £220 | 1 |
Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star 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 Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star at auction is £180. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £160, with a high of £220 and a low of £135. 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.
Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star is up 12.5% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 14.3%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star 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%.
Over the past 12 months Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star has moved up 12.5%, with a current median hammer price of £160. The bottle has been observed at auction across 31 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 £180, 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 Spica 1980 40 Year Old North Star that hammers at £180 would cost the buyer approximately £227 all-in including buyer's premium.
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