Ardbeg 1973 30 Year Old Old & Rare is a collectable Scotch whisky from Ardbeg aged 30 years. Based on 5 recorded auction lots across 5 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,700, with the most recent sale at £1,700. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £680 (low) to £4,600 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Ardbeg 1973 30 Year Old Old & Rare is £1,300–£2,100 (±24% around the latest sale).
Ardbeg is a whisky distillery. Ardbeg 1973 30 Year Old Old & Rare is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1973.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1973), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 30-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as rare, 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
£1,700
24-month median
£1,700
24-month high
£4,600
24-month low
£680
Estimated value · likely range
£1,300–£2,100 ±24%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £1,700 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £2,500 | 1 |
| April 2019 | £4,600 | 1 |
| November 2016 | £1,700 | 1 |
| February 2016 | £680 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Ardbeg 1973 30 Year Old Old & Rare at auction is £1,700. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,700, with a high of £4,600 and a low of £680. 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 Ardbeg 1973 30 Year Old Old & Rare, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £680 to £4,600 (median £1,700).
Ardbeg 1973 30 Year Old Old & Rare 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 £1,700 (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%.
Ardbeg 1973 30 Year Old Old & Rare has appeared in 5 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £1,700. 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 £1,700, 24-month median £1,700 — 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 Ardbeg 1973 30 Year Old Old & Rare that hammers at £1,700 would cost the buyer approximately £2,142 all-in including buyer's premium.
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