Hanyu - Ichiro's Malt The Joker (Colour) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Hanyu. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,950, with the most recent sale at £2,075. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £2,075 (low) to £4,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Hanyu - Ichiro's Malt The Joker (Colour) is £1,864–£2,286 (±10% around the latest sale).
Hanyu is a whisky distillery. Hanyu - Ichiro's Malt The Joker (Colour) is a no-age-statement bottling.
Closed / ghost distillery
Hanyu closed in 2000; its original stock is finite and highly sought after, particularly the Ichiro's Malt 'Card' bottlings.
Named / limited release
Released as colourichirojoker, 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
£2,075
24-month median
£2,950
24-month high
£4,400
24-month low
£2,075
Estimated value · likely range
£1,864–£2,286 ±10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £2,075 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £2,375 | 1 |
| December 2024 | £2,800 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £2,950 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £2,900 | 1 |
| October 2023 | £3,150 | 1 |
| January 2023 | £3,400 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £4,100 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £4,400 | 1 |
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The latest hammer price for Hanyu - Ichiro's Malt The Joker (Colour) at auction is £2,075. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,950, with a high of £4,400 and a low of £2,075. 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 Hanyu - Ichiro's Malt The Joker (Colour), so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £2,075 to £4,400 (median £2,950).
Hanyu - Ichiro's Malt The Joker (Colour) 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 £2,950 (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%.
Hanyu - Ichiro's Malt The Joker (Colour) has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £2,950. 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 £2,075, 24-month median £2,950 — 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 Hanyu - Ichiro's Malt The Joker (Colour) that hammers at £2,075 would cost the buyer approximately £2,615 all-in including buyer's premium.
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