latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
41
Houses
2
Last sold
yesterday
Springbank 1998 Vintage is a collectable Scotch whisky from Springbank. Based on 41 recorded auction lots across 8 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £850, with the most recent sale at £1,000. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £775 (low) to £1,017 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Springbank 1998 Vintage is £920–£1,080 (±8% around the latest sale).
Springbank is a whisky distillery. Springbank 1998 Vintage is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1998.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1998), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£1,000
24-month median
£850
24-month high
£1,017
24-month low
£775
Estimated value · likely range
£920–£1,080 ±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
23 lots
Cadence
≈ 2 per month
Trend
▲ 0% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 3% of tracked bottles
Last seen
1 day ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£850
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 | 16 | £1,000 | £850 |
| Whisky Hammer | 5 | £840 | £840 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £1,000 | 1 |
| August 2026 | £850 | 4 |
| February 2026 | £800 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £800 | 6 |
| October 2025 | £850 | 4 |
| September 2025 | £950 | 2 |
| August 2025 | £1,017 | 6 |
| July 2025 | £775 | 16 |
Springbank 1998 Vintage appeared in 23 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is up 0% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 3% 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 Springbank 1998 Vintage at auction is £1,000. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £850, with a high of £1,017 and a low of £775. 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 Springbank 1998 Vintage, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £775 to £1,017 (median £850).
Springbank 1998 Vintage 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 £850 (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%.
Springbank 1998 Vintage has appeared in 41 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £850. 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 £1,000, 24-month median £850 — 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 Springbank 1998 Vintage that hammers at £1,000 would cost the buyer approximately £1,260 all-in including buyer's premium.
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