Anybody Watch The Blay Auction Tonight?

Only 10,800+ lots. You can check their
auction archives..

Will there be more auctions? Seems like a rather small and narrow grouping to me. Also wondering if the Blay-Duckor Collection is the same Blay - several Lincoln cents sold there in 2020 with that provenance. And there is a Lincoln 1922 No D in MS65 Red currently being auctioned, listed as a "duplicate from the Stewart Blay Red Copper Collection", $62.5K so far with 3 days left.

GC does a fair amount of Canadian but I've only bought US from them so far. 165 current listings. More bang for the buck than Heritage especially if you pay by eCheck.

eCheck doesn't work for canadian account unfortunately, you have to use other options like Wire transfer where they add a $35 fees, add that to the Bank transaction fees and you are around Cad$80 by payment, (up to 4 payments if you use the 3 months plan).

Especially if your credit card have a cash return or something similar, its something to think about if your invoice is under US$10K

Also, it seems S. Duckor knew S. Blay quite well, calling him his ''copper mentor'' and Blay collected a few other series in the shadow of his monumental copper collection ( Barber dimes notably) so its likely him.

GC did not call the main auctions a "Blay" auction. Check out the Sunday auctions from maybe 3 to 6 weeks ago in the cent category. Some amazing things like his 1919, 1955 double die etc.

https://www.greatcollections.com/kb...-t527-4.html

Anybody follow the resale of several of the Blay items on Great Collections tonight?

I thought there might be a letdown in prices from the frenzied original Blay auction, but I was wrong. As one example, the Norweb/Blay 1859 W9/8 in PCGS 65RB (pop 3/0) went for $26K CAD, about the same as it went in the original auction. Other stuff sold very well also.

I can't compete with those people. If I want to see what coins go for, I just visit ebay.

Two bidders drove the W9/8 to that level. I did not bid on the coin,

I do like to follow how the top coins sell, as I think it provides an indication of the health of the overall market. I understand that some others do not care.

After his death, Blay's Canadian coins originally sold in February 2023 at very strong prices. Somebody, perhaps somebody here, who bought in 2023 consigned about a dozen of them back to the auction last night. Overall, they sold just as well and perhaps a little higher than in 2023. Tells me the market is healthy.

Something worth consideration.