latest hammer price
Auction lots
12
Houses
1
Last sold
yesterday
Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Strathisla aged 24 years. Based on 12 recorded auction lots across 12 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £195, with the most recent sale at £180. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £75 (low) to £280 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask is £156–£204 (±13% around the latest sale).
Strathisla is a whisky distillery. Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask is an age-stated bottling at 24 years old, distilled in 1979.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1979), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Age statement
A 24-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask, 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
£180
24-month median
£195
24-month high
£280
24-month low
£75
Estimated value · likely range
£156–£204 ±13%
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
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
1 day ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £180 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £190 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £180 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £190 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £230 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £200 | 1 |
| November 2017 | £280 | 1 |
| August 2017 | £240 | 1 |
| November 2015 | £270 | 1 |
| October 2015 | £75 | 1 |
| March 2015 | £115 | 1 |
| February 2015 | £220 | 1 |
More from Strathisla
Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask 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 puts it in the top 39% 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 Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask at auction is £180. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £195, with a high of £280 and a low of £75. 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 Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £75 to £280 (median £195).
Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask 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 £195 (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%.
Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask has appeared in 12 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £195. 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 £180, 24-month median £195 — 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 Strathisla 1979 24 Year Old First Cask that hammers at £180 would cost the buyer approximately £227 all-in including buyer's premium.
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