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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‘Shell head’ helped to keep the Free French fighting
30 October 2023One of the best performers against estimate at Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) Militaria & Ethnographica sale on September 20 was a fascinating collection of photographs and ephemera relating to a French Second World War hero.
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Man of letters: correspondence from famous figures
30 October 2023A collection of correspondence penned by leading figures of the 20th century to an Oxford academic raised more than £20,000 for charity at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) on October 10.
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Feuchere’s Satanic majesty attracts bids at Bonhams Los Angeles auction
30 October 2023A highlight of Bonhams’ (28/27/21% buyer’s premium) Home & Interiors sale on September 26 was this clock surmounted by a bronze cast of the Jean-Jacques Feuchere (1807-52) sculpture Mephistopheles or Satan.
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Doll defender of Guernsey sells at 10 times estimate
30 October 2023An intriguing painted wooden British soldier doll sold for more than 10 times the top estimate when it was offered at Guernsey auction house Martel Maides (24% buyer’s premium).
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Grab an almost half Nelson
30 October 2023Cheffins of Cambridge is offering a marble bust of Lord Nelson, after Franz Thaller (1759-1817) and Matthias Ranson (fl. c.1800).
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Maritime specialist Miller waves goodbye to Fulham and moves to… Fulham
30 October 2023It is a big move for auctioneer Charles Miller. Well, big in terms of his new premises being larger and taller. Not so big in terms of huge distance, however.
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Rare Arctic discovery in Dorset auction
30 October 2023Only 155 Arctic Medals 1875-76 were issued, with 59 of those being to HMS Discovery.
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John Gould second edition served as fresh helping
30 October 2023Follow-up edition of a classic avian work was more or less a new publication thanks to extra research
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The Polish eagle has landed in badge form
30 October 2023Among recent paratrooper items that impressed at auction, this Polish badge with combat wreath doubled the top estimate at Bosleys to take £4000 from a UK online private buyer.
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Cape features more than 300 thank-yous for nurse Carey
30 October 2023The front page of ATG No 2558 featured a Second World War nurse’s cape decorated with an array of cloth regimental badges that sold at Essex auction house Sworders in August last year.
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Bidders jump to attention for Paratrooper gear
30 October 2023Airborne forces memorabilia is usually a winner at auction but especially when it’s an early example
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Sculpture dealers Tomasso to offer collection at Dreweatts auction
26 October 2023Leeds and London dealership Tomasso is to hold a sale of stock at Dreweatts on November 14-15.
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Christie’s auction star Jussi Pylkkänen to leave after 38 years
25 October 2023Jussi Pylkkänen, Christie’s global president, plans to step down at the end of the year to work as an independent art advisor.
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Pair of chairs record toppled twice in same Rothschild sale
23 October 2023The auction record for a pair of chairs was broken twice as part of Christie’s Rothschild family auction series in New York.
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Louis Wain fans get claws into his ceramic cats
23 October 2023Futurist and Cubist feline design figures higly in an extensive single-owner collection of ceramics
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Specialists had gone on a Frank Algernon Stewart hunt
23 October 2023Two watercolours by Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945) were among the best performers in a collection of works amassed by two former gallery owners.
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Pick of the week: Tokens collection attracts keen US interest
23 October 2023This halfpenny featuring a ‘wild man’s head’ from northern Japan actually promotes a rather less fiercesome individual: Richard Summer, a perfumer and dealer in curiosities in Cavendish Street, London.
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Not such a warm response to Frieze week auctions compared to last year
23 October 2023The latest Frieze week auctions in London generated a markedly lower total than the equivalent series last year.
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Take a kesi seat cover or two
23 October 2023This pair of kesi chair covers woven with front-facing dragons against an apricot ground, date from the late Ming or early Qing dynasty period.
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Seized jade now for sale
23 October 2023Bonhams’ Fine Chinese Art sale on November 2 includes this Qing jade carving of a mythical beast that formed part of the seminal Chinesische Kunst exhibition of 1929 in Berlin.
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