latest hammer price
Auction lots
15
Houses
1
Last sold
327 days ago
Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balblair aged 16 years. Based on 15 recorded auction lots across 14 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £68, with the most recent sale at £70. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £50 (low) to £90 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style is £64–£76 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style is up 7.7%, with a 6-month trend of +7.7% (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.
Balblair is a whisky distillery. Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style is an age-stated bottling at 16 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as style, 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
£70
24-month median
£68
24-month high
£90
24-month low
£50
Estimated value · likely range
£64–£76 ±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 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
327 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | £70 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £85 | 1 |
| November 2023 | £50 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £70 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £55 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £60 | 1 |
| September 2022 | £65 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £75 | 2 |
| March 2022 | £65 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £90 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £75 | 1 |
| October 2021 | £65 | 1 |
Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style 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 98% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style at auction is £70. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £68, with a high of £90 and a low of £50. 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.
Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style is up 7.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 7.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style 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 £68 (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 Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style has moved up 7.7%, with a current median hammer price of £68. The bottle has been observed at auction across 15 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 £70, 24-month median £68 — 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 Balblair 16 Year Old Old Style that hammers at £70 would cost the buyer approximately £88 all-in including buyer's premium.
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