latest hammer price
Auction lots
84
Houses
1
Last sold
153 days ago
Vega 1985 33 Year Old North Star is a collectable Scotch whisky from Vega aged 33 years. Based on 84 recorded auction lots across 30 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £150, with the most recent sale at £150. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £98 (low) to £210 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Vega 1985 33 Year Old North Star is £138–£162 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Vega 1985 33 Year Old North Star is up 0%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (up). 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.
Vega is a whisky distillery. Vega 1985 33 Year Old North Star is an age-stated bottling at 33 years old, distilled in 1985.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1985), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 33-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
£150
24-month median
£150
24-month high
£210
24-month low
£98
Estimated value · likely range
£138–£162 ±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
153 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £150 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £140 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £150 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £160 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £120 | 2 |
| July 2023 | £160 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £150 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £170 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £210 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £200 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £150 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £150 | 1 |
Vega 1985 33 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 Vega 1985 33 Year Old North Star at auction is £150. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £150, with a high of £210 and a low of £98. 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.
Vega 1985 33 Year Old North Star is up 0% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Vega 1985 33 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 £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%.
Over the past 12 months Vega 1985 33 Year Old North Star has moved up 0%, with a current median hammer price of £150. The bottle has been observed at auction across 84 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 £150, 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 Vega 1985 33 Year Old North Star that hammers at £150 would cost the buyer approximately £189 all-in including buyer's premium.
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