Macallan 12 Year Old Masters of Photography Ernie Button is a collectable Scotch whisky from Macallan aged 12 years. Based on 19 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £103, with the most recent sale at £130. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £60 (low) to £440 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Macallan 12 Year Old Masters of Photography Ernie Button is £93–£167 (±28% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Macallan 12 Year Old Masters of Photography Ernie Button is up 36.8%, with a 6-month trend of +18.2% (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.
Macallan is a whisky distillery. Macallan 12 Year Old Masters of Photography Ernie Button is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as buttonerniemastersphotography, 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
£130
24-month median
£103
24-month high
£440
24-month low
£60
Estimated value · likely range
£93–£167 ±28%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £130 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £110 | 1 |
| July 2021 | £240 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £440 | 1 |
| August 2019 | £130 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £160 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £110 | 1 |
| August 2018 | £65 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £73 | 2 |
| July 2017 | £95 | 1 |
| May 2017 | £110 | 1 |
| April 2017 | £65 | 1 |
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The latest hammer price for Macallan 12 Year Old Masters of Photography Ernie Button at auction is £130. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £103, with a high of £440 and a low of £60. 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.
Macallan 12 Year Old Masters of Photography Ernie Button is up 36.8% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 18.2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Macallan 12 Year Old Masters of Photography Ernie Button 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 £103 (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 Macallan 12 Year Old Masters of Photography Ernie Button has moved up 36.8%, with a current median hammer price of £103. The bottle has been observed at auction across 19 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 £130, 24-month median £103 — 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 Macallan 12 Year Old Masters of Photography Ernie Button that hammers at £130 would cost the buyer approximately £164 all-in including buyer's premium.
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