Canterbury Auction Galleries
Canterbury Auction Galleries in Kent are collectables and fine art auctioneers. Established in 1991, they hold regular valuation days and their auctions offer a range of items including pictures, jewellery, silver and furniture.
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Bawden farm reaps reward at Kent auction
12 November 2018Work by the community of mid-20th century painters in Essex known as the Great Bardfield Artists fetches strong sums on the secondary market.
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Bid barometer
20 October 2018ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period October 4-11, 2018. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.
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Five lots that caught bidders’ eyes including pen and ink silhouettes, a Qing model of a tree and an 18th century casket
12 October 2018ATG’s selection of highlights sold at auctions this week, including a model tree taken from the Chinese emperor's Summer Palace.
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Single-owner collection of police truncheons comes to auction in Kent
25 September 2018Historian and collector Gavin Littaur is to auction a selection of his extensive collection of police truncheons and tipstaves.
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Communism in Canterbury
27 August 2018For a Communist tyrant, Joseph Stalin remains remarkably popular in the capitalist world of UK auctions – the latest evidence provided by a rare cast bronze death mask offered at Canterbury Auction Galleries (24% buyer’s premium).
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Fascinating archive up at Canterbury reveals the glory days of the space race
23 July 2018The lifelong interest which inspired an extensive archive of space exploration photos now coming up at auction was first sparked off by a HG Wells novel received as a gift.
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Keyboard instrument collectors tune up and turn up
25 June 2018Putting a third major collection of highly specialist and highly priced material onto the market within little over three years might seem to be asking too much of a limited number of wealthy enthusiasts.
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Barometer and dinner plate from the heroic age of polar exploration up at auction
30 May 2018When ‘collecting fields’ are talked about it can mean certain eras rather than just ceramics, glass or silver for example. The ‘heroic age of polar exploration’ is a classic example.
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Josephine shows her face
21 May 2018Not, perhaps, the face modern eyes would immediately think of captivating an emperor, but this porcelain plaque portrait of Napoleon’s first wife, Josephine, was one of a number of major attractions at Canterbury Auction Galleries’ (24% buyer’s premium) Spring Sale.
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Colt Clavier to be dispersed in Canterbury
07 May 2018The Colt Clavier collection of historical keyboard instruments will be offered on June 7 in a sale held by Canterbury Auction Galleries in association with London specialist Piano Auctions.
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Pick of the Week: Chinese bronze taken from Summer Palace sells for six figures at auction
16 April 2018A rare Western Zhou bronze, taken when the Summer Palace was sacked by British troops in 1860, sold for £410,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) at the Canterbury Auction Galleries.
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Summer Palace bronze sells for £410,000 at Canterbury Auctions
11 April 2018An exceptionally rare Western Zhou bronze, taken when the Summer Palace was sacked by British troops in 1860, has sold for £410,000, four times its lower estimate.
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Summer Palace bronze up at auction in Canterbury
26 March 2018An exceptionally rare Western Zhou bronze, taken when the Summer Palace was sacked by British troops in 1860, has been discovered in a house in a Kent seaside town.
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Rare Chinese bronze ‘tiger’ vessel looted by British troops from Beijing’s Summer Palace found in Kent time capsule
22 March 2018An exceptionally rare Western Zhou bronze, taken when the Summer Palace was sacked by British troops in 1860, has been found in a house in a Kent seaside town.
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French furniture keeps the market fresh
05 March 2018With most English furniture still underperforming at auction, it is French 19th century cabinetmaking that is providing the soundest base of furniture sales in England.
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Conservative depiction could be of colourful noble
05 March 2018A portrait thought to depict one of the most notorious characters of the Jacobean age drew strong bidding in Canterbury.
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Take a peep at arcade machines sold at auction
05 March 2018Commonly known as a What The Butler Saw machine, a late 19th-early 20th century Mutoscope was the most alluring of a consignment of a collection of amusement arcade machines offered at Canterbury Auction Galleries (20% buyer’s premium).
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Rare engraving of the Canterbury Magna Carta is bought at local auction by the city's cathedral
11 December 2017A rare engraving of ‘Canterbury’s Magna Carta’ of 1215 has been saved for the Kent city after it appeared in a sale at The Canterbury Auction Galleries.
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'Castle top' vinaigrette brings a tale to Canterbury auction
27 November 2017The Canterbury Auction Galleries included this George IV silver vinaigrette by John Lawrence & Co, Birmingham, decorated with a view of St Peter’s Church, Brighton. It sold to an Australian internet bidder for £2300.
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Exotic Oz musician is in tune at Canterbury sale
30 October 2017A near-monochrome watercolour by the Australian artist and stage designer Loudon Sainthill (1918-69) sold for five times its top estimate at Canterbury Auction Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) on October 3-4.
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