Bellmans
Bellmans is an auction house operating from salerooms in Winchester, Hampshire and Wisborough Green, West Sussex. Managing director Jonathan Pratt holds valuation events in both the local areas as well as from an office in central London.
Bellmans hold regular antiques and interiors auctions offering items including silver, jewellery, Oriental works of art, furniture and garden statuary.
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Mr Copper and Wibbly-Wobbly
03 July 2017Like many who deal in antiques, the late dealer Andrew Cottrell zeroed in on his chosen niche with an all-consuming passion, accumulating vast knowledge (and stock) in the process.
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Jelly mould collection wobbles its way to Winchester auctioneer
21 June 2017An eccentric and unique lifetime collection of more than 400 copper, tin and ceramic moulds feature in a special summer auction in Hampshire
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Sussex buyer follows the plough
05 June 2017A painting by equine artist Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958) sold for four times its top guide at Bellmans (20% buyer’s premium).
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Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson wedding photos double estimate at auction at Bellmans
02 December 2016Rarely seen photographs of the wedding that caused a constitutional crisis and rocked the British monarchy have been sold at £9200.
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Bellmans expand auction business to Winchester
12 September 2016West Sussex auction house Bellmans have expanded over the border to Hampshire and will hold their first sale in their new home tomorrow.
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From £25 to £15,500 – the boot fair bronze
11 March 2016A 16th century Tibetan gilt-bronze figure of the Buddhist deity Green Tara sold to an international bidder for £15,500 at Bellmans in Wisborough Green – a coup for the vendor who had paid just £25 for it at a car boot fair.
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Tibetan bronze figure takes £32,000 at Bellmans’ auction
21 August 2015West Sussex auctioneers Bellmans enjoyed considerable success on August 5, with a single-owner collection of around 30 Indian and Tibetan bronzes collected by a private vendor in the 1960s.
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Meissen squirrels fetch £45,000 at Sussex auction
28 March 2014Estimated at £8000-12,000, this rare pair of Meissen figures of red squirrels, c.1750, modelled by J.J.Kändler, took £45,000 at Bellmans auctions of Wisborough Green, near Billingshurst.
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Meissen squirrels spotted in West Sussex
12 March 2014Auctioneers Bellmans will include a pair of Meissen squirrels, modelled by J.J.Kändler and dated to c.1750 in their forthcoming sale.
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Joseph Wright of Derby sells at £125,000 in West Sussex
29 April 2013This previously unrecorded late work by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97), ‘Landscape with Rainbow’, sold for £125,000 at Bellmans in Wisborough Green, West Sussex.
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Tea caddies take £17,000 in West Sussex
20 August 2012The highlight of Bellmans’ latest three-day sale at Wisborough Green, West Sussex was an impressive set of three George II tortoiseshell and silver tea caddies in a fitted silver-mounted tortoiseshell case.
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Students get creative to help West Dean
30 April 2012STUDENTS from West Dean College near Chichester will offer their work at auction to raise funds to supplement the college’s bursary and scholarship schemes.
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A true icon in Sussex at £23,000
24 August 2009THIS Russian icon depicting St George slaying the dragon generated a lively competition when offered on the third day of Bellmans' sale in Wisborough Green, West Sussex.
Bellmans to open central London office
25 March 2008West Sussex-based auctioneer Bellmans are the latest UK saleroom to open an office in Central London.
La Locretia helps sell 16th century drug jar
27 July 2005THE unexpected success of the pair of library chairs discussed above led the way at the Wisborough Green saleroom, but there was keen action, mainly in the three-figure range, across the three days when 1800 lots were offered.
Virgil translated
29 September 2004FIRST edition copies of John Martyn’s translations of Virgil’s Georgicks (1741) and Bucolicks (1749), both illustrated with coloured plates and maps and bound in contemporary calf, made £500 in a September 17 sale held by John Bellman of Billingshurst.
On the origin of a couple of Austens
10 June 2004BOUND in half calf gilt and marbled boards, the three-vol., 1813 second edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that sold for £4600 in a May 21 sale held by John Bellman of Billingshurst bore the pencil initials H.D. for Horace Darwin (Charles Darwin’s son) and his bookplates were to be found in a copy of the 1818, four-vol. first edition of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in a similar but less well-preserved binding that sold at £2500.
Hungarian ceramics return home
23 March 2004Shown right are two highlights from the sale conducted by John Bellman (15% buyer’s premium) of Newpound, Wisborough Green, on February 18.
Table’s star turn lifts spirits
07 March 2003The doom and gloom experienced in many provincial rooms prior to Christmas was nowhere to be seen in these Sussex rooms, who, despite the snowy conditions, took a respectable hammer total just shy of £170,000.
Salerooms battle on despite floods
06 November 2000Once again torrential rain and flooding has wreaked havoc across the country causing disruption to the antiques trade.
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