latest hammer price
Auction lots
35
Houses
1
Last sold
145 days ago
Balblair 1979 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balblair. Based on 35 recorded auction lots across 31 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £190, with the most recent sale at £240. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £120 (low) to £340 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balblair 1979 is £185–£295 (±23% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balblair 1979 is down 4%, with a 6-month trend of -4% (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.
Balblair is a whisky distillery. Balblair 1979 is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1979.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1979), so the available batch is inherently finite.
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
£240
24-month median
£190
24-month high
£340
24-month low
£120
Estimated value · likely range
£185–£295 ±23%
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
145 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £240 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £230 | 1 |
| February 2024 | £270 | 1 |
| January 2024 | £260 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £210 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £260 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £250 | 1 |
| March 2022 | £340 | 1 |
| October 2020 | £320 | 1 |
| January 2020 | £220 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £220 | 1 |
| January 2019 | £300 | 1 |
Balblair 1979 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 1979 at auction is £240. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £190, with a high of £340 and a low of £120. 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 1979 is down 4% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balblair 1979 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 £190 (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 1979 has moved down 4%, with a current median hammer price of £190. The bottle has been observed at auction across 35 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 £240, 24-month median £190 — 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 1979 that hammers at £240 would cost the buyer approximately £302 all-in including buyer's premium.
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