Laphroaig 30 Year Old (The Ian Hunter Story) Book 1 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Laphroaig aged 30 years. Based on 24 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,125, with the most recent sale at £850. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £625 (low) to £1,500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Laphroaig 30 Year Old (The Ian Hunter Story) Book 1 is £779–£921 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Laphroaig 30 Year Old (The Ian Hunter Story) Book 1 is down 22.7%, with a 6-month trend of -38.2% (down). 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.
Laphroaig is a whisky distillery. Laphroaig 30 Year Old (The Ian Hunter Story) Book 1 is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old.
Considerable age
A 30-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
£850
24-month median
£1,125
24-month high
£1,500
24-month low
£625
Estimated value · likely range
£779–£921 ±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.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | £850 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £1,275 | 2 |
| June 2024 | £1,000 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £1,125 | 2 |
| April 2023 | £1,400 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £1,200 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £1,375 | 2 |
| April 2022 | £1,200 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £1,500 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £1,200 | 1 |
| January 2021 | £625 | 2 |
| December 2020 | £1,100 | 1 |
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The latest hammer price for Laphroaig 30 Year Old (The Ian Hunter Story) Book 1 at auction is £850. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,125, with a high of £1,500 and a low of £625. 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.
Laphroaig 30 Year Old (The Ian Hunter Story) Book 1 is down 22.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 38.2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Laphroaig 30 Year Old (The Ian Hunter Story) Book 1 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 £1,125 (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 Laphroaig 30 Year Old (The Ian Hunter Story) Book 1 has moved down 22.7%, with a current median hammer price of £1,125. The bottle has been observed at auction across 24 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 £850, 24-month median £1,125 — 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 Laphroaig 30 Year Old (The Ian Hunter Story) Book 1 that hammers at £850 would cost the buyer approximately £1,071 all-in including buyer's premium.
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