Auctioneers
The auction process is a key part of the secondary art and antiques market.
Firms of auctioneers usually specialise in a number of fields such as jewellery, ceramics, paintings, Asian art or coins but many also hold general sales where the goods available are not defined by a particular genre and are usually lower in value.
Auctioneers often provide other services such as probate and insurance valuations.
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Private collection of Royal correspondence up for auction at Young's
15 August 2024A collection of over 60 lots of royal correspondence from the private collection of the late Gerald and Angela Lascelles is coming up at Young’s Auctions in Farnham on September 14.
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Autographs collected on board Concorde head to auction
14 August 2024Autographs collected aboard Concorde by an air hostess will go up for sale at Hansons in Derbyshire on August 20.
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Penzance saleroom Lay's stage inaugural studio pottery auction
14 August 2024Lay’s inaugural 'Studio Pottery Sale' is due to take place on September 6 in Penzance.
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Example of early AI art in demand at Chiswick Auctions
14 August 2024As with most other areas of life, it remains difficult to say at present whether artificial intelligence will end up having a transformational effect on the art market or not.
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Copy of earliest printed book dedicated to golf doubles estimate in Cornwall
13 August 2024The latest Books & Works on Paper sale at Lays in Penzance included a copy of the first printed book entirely dedicated to golf: Thomas Mathison’s ‘The Goff. An Heroi-Comical Poem. In three Cantos....’
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Bidders pick out a Laura Knight painting in Gloucestershire
13 August 2024A painting by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) depicting hop pickers more than doubled estimate when it appeared at Gloucestershire saleroom Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) last month.
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Rare Royal Doulton prototype of a 'Boy on a Tortoise' sells at Sussex auction
12 August 2024A rare Royal Doulton prototype model of a 'Boy on a Tortoise' was found in a modest house in Mill End in Rickmansworth.
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Lock from Florence Nightingale encapsulates the diverse lots in a North Yorkshire auction
12 August 2024One of the more unusual items on offer at Tennants’ (20% buyer’s premium) Summer Fine Sale was a lock of hair from the 19th century nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). It was thought to have been cut in 1883 when she was 63 years old.
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Pick of the Week: Celtic torc talked of as a Co Cork find
12 August 2024This Celtic silver ‘ribbon’ torc, or armlet was made – perhaps in Ireland – sometime in the period between c.500BC-500AD.
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Cleethorpes also so bracing as Skegness as LNER poster demonstrates
12 August 2024While the famous railway poster featuring the Jolly Fisherman (see ATG No 2653) promoted Skegness, the example shown here was intended to tempt holidaymaker to another Lincolnshire seaside resort.
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‘Compositions of real class’ strengthen their appeal
12 August 2024Leading several modestly pitched highlights at Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Surrey last month was this signed charcoal portrait of a girl by Welsh painter Augustus John (1878-1961).
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Works by Swiss artists tempt Swiss collectors
12 August 2024Swiss collectors were in a generous mood at Koller’s (25/22/15% buyer’s premium) recent Zurich auction.
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Bellmer’s descending nude hammered down at £95,000
12 August 2024German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-75) explored themes of desire, sexuality and the subconscious mind through his surrealistic sculptures, drawings and photographs.
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The Hobbit stands tall for new auction high
12 August 2024Spotlight on copy sold in superb Strutz collection – plus a look at other recent results for the Tolkien classic
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Drawing result is a surprise even for Klimt in Austria
12 August 2024Works on paper by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) are regularly strong sellers at Austrian auctions, but even so, the result for one of his coloured pencil drawings at a Dorotheum (30/25% buyer’s premium) sale in Vienna was quite a surprise.
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Pink Frankenstein shines in Strutz sale part one
12 August 2024William Strutz’s library built within his home in Bismarck, North Dakota, consisted of some 15,000 books, which the attorney began assembling while in college in the late 1950s
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Sir Alfred Munnings work trots back to rostrum 20 years later
12 August 2024Oil sketch appears at auction two decades on but overall the artist’s premium works are in short supply
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Roll up, roll up for an auction extravaganza of fairground memorabilia
10 August 2024All the fun of the fair comes to Bonhams New Bond Street with a sale featuring an array of vintage and antique fairground figures and carvings, ride seats shaped as animals, games and posters.
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Intriguing gold snuff box relating to a Cumbrian row in 1850 emerges at auction
09 August 2024An 18ct gold presentation snuffbox by Nathaniel Mills is coming up for sale at Cheffins (25% buyer’s premium) Jewellery, Silver & Watches sale in Cambridge on August 15.
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Lights from Titanic sister-ship RMS Olympic fly over estimate at Newcastle auction
08 August 2024Eight original light fittings from the RMS Olympic which were discovered in Durham attracted strong interest at a recent Anderson & Garland auction.
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