Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood was established in 2009 when two companies, Bearne’s and Hampton & Littlewood, combined to create an auction house with expertise in fine art auctions and valuations. Bearne’s had been set up in 1945 and Hampton & Littlewood in 2001.
The company covers the south-west of England – Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset and Devon and holds regular auctions from its saleroom in Exeter.
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Diamond pendant was gift from a rear admiral
04 July 2022The Summer Sale at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter on July 13-15 includes this mid-Victorian colour change sapphire and rose-cut diamond pendant.
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With this marriage chest I thee wed
23 May 2022Translating simply as ‘a box with drawers’ but so much more exotic than that, a rare Spanish Renaissance caja con cajones was the outstanding lot at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood’s (25% buyer’s premium) quarterly fine art sale in Exeter.
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Caterpillar and dolphin dangers
14 March 2022RAF Wing Commander Terence Helfer’s Distinguished Flying Cross citation stated: “He has undertaken many hazardous missions…”
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London exhibition lots join worldwide adventures at sale
31 January 2022A handsome group of eight volumes commemorating the Great Exhibition of 1851 sold in Exeter had been presented to one of its commissioners, England’s serial Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone.
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The Wright map that plots a route to £365,000
20 December 2021A copy of Richard Hakluyt’s 'The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation' takes a six-figure sum at Devon sale.
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Carpenter’s hits include chart toppers
01 November 2021Antarctic maps take highest prices in collection relating to key Terra Nova crew member
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Chinese cup with surprise in store
23 August 2021Chinese trick or surprise cups were made to deceive a drinker and illustrate the classical paradigm that modesty brings gain and arrogance results in loss.
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Sickert takes a trip down the river
21 June 2021Walter Sickert and Winifred Nicholson feature in Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood's picture sale.
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Simple Cornish charm stands out in the salerooms
14 June 2021Naive-style Cornish art has been on a good run at regional auctions over recent months.
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Varied selection from execution to excise in Exeter saleroom
19 April 2021Bid to a far higher than predicted £1000 in a recent West Country sale was a broadside whose lengthy title read: 'Life, Trial, and Execution of T.Cooper. Who was executed at Newgate this Morning for the Murder of Timothy Daly, a Policeman, at Highbury.'
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‘Attagirls’ items fly high at two auctions
18 January 2021Memorabilia relating to members of a pioneering elite group of female pilots who flew in the Second World War soared over estimates at two auction houses.
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Auction previews: issue 2474
04 January 2021Our regular selection of previews from UK and Irish salerooms.
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Second World War female pioneering pilots memorabilia soars beyond estimates at auction
29 December 2020Memorabilia relating to members of a pioneering elite group of female pilots who flew in the Second World War soared over estimates at two auction houses.
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Previews
07 December 2020A special focus on stand-out lots in decorative art & design auctions coming up this month.
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Memorabilia reveals role of the brave British female pilots of the Second World War
25 November 2020A medal and other items relating to members of a pioneering group of female pilots who flew in the Second World War is coming up at two auctions.
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Drinking vessels bring cheering prices
17 August 2020Two traditional drinking vessels brought surprising toasts to European craftsmen at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (23% buyer’s premium) in Exeter.
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Sales platforms for totem station signs
17 August 2020Collected by a Scottish enthusiast, 26 railway station totems – the enamel signs introduced across the UK by newly nationalised British Rail in 1948 – gained UK-wide interest at McTear’s (24% buyer’s premium) in Glasgow.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1500 including a John Miller Greek beach view
10 August 2020Good art at a great price in regional sales
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Drummer boy jug from Fidelle Duvivier’s month in Worcester surfaces in Exeter
13 July 2020This spiral-moulded cream jug decorated with a drummer boy is from a well-documented Caughley tea and coffee service painted with figural subjects by Fidelle Duvivier during a brief period of work at the Chamberlain factory in Worcester in October 1792.
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Danger risk from grave errors
27 April 2020Essay warns about considerable perils of the ‘indecent custom’ of burials in churchyards
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