latest hammer price
Auction lots
10
Houses
1
Last sold
506 days ago
Strathmill 1974 26 Year Old First Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Strathmill aged 26 years. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £150, with the most recent sale at £170. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £70 (low) to £180 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Strathmill 1974 26 Year Old First Cask is £128–£213 (±25% around the latest sale).
Strathmill is a whisky distillery. Strathmill 1974 26 Year Old First Cask is an age-stated bottling at 26 years old, distilled in 1974.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1974), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 26-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Strathmill 1974 26 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
£170
24-month median
£150
24-month high
£180
24-month low
£70
Estimated value · likely range
£128–£213 ±25%
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
0 lots
Trend
▼ 100% vs prior year
Last seen
506 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | £170 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £160 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £140 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £170 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £180 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £150 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £95 | 1 |
| January 2018 | £95 | 1 |
| March 2015 | £70 | 2 |
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Strathmill 1974 26 Year Old First Cask appeared in 0 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That is down 100% on the previous year.
The latest hammer price for Strathmill 1974 26 Year Old First Cask at auction is £170. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £150, with a high of £180 and a low of £70. 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 Strathmill 1974 26 Year Old First Cask, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £70 to £180 (median £150).
Strathmill 1974 26 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 £150 (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%.
Strathmill 1974 26 Year Old First Cask has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £150. 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 £170, 24-month median £150 — 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 Strathmill 1974 26 Year Old First Cask that hammers at £170 would cost the buyer approximately £214 all-in including buyer's premium.
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