Hansons
Hansons is a UK auction house that holds regular auctions at its Derbyshire showroom in Etwall as well as at Bishton Hall in Staffordshire and Normansfield Theatre in Teddington, London. In August 2020, Hansons purchased the assets of two further UK salerooms: Charles Ross Auctioneers in Woburn and Holloway’s in Banbury.
The firm was set up in 2005 by proprietor Charles Hanson who appears on a number of antiques television shows.
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Career launched by pocket money pottery purchases
15 January 2018Not only is industrious Derbyshire auction house Hansons about to launch its new saleroom down south, but it is also starting a new sale format building on the popular tribal art collecting scene.
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Contents of Warwickshire’s Luddington Manor goes to auction at Hansons
12 January 2018Furniture, paintings, ceramics and silver are among the items from Grade II-listed Luddington Manor to be offered at Hansons’ Antiques and Collectors’ auction later this month.
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Stan Mortensen 1953 FA Cup final hat-trick football to be offered at Derbyshire auction
06 January 2018With a full weekend of FA Cup action kicking off last night, it is a perfect time to reveal that the only football ever used to score a hat-trick in an FA Cup final at the original Wembley Stadium is coming up at auction.
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Charles Hanson: ‘I want to expand across London within a year’
30 December 2017Charles Hanson, the indefatigable Derbyshire auctioneer, is making his first move into the London market, with the launch of Hansons London in January. Here he tells ATG why the time is right for his expansion down south and how he'll differentiate the business from London rivals
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Nelson and Lawrence of Arabia footwear stroll to Hansons auction success
23 December 2017Footwear is always topical at this time of year thanks to careless Cinderella and her mislaid slipper. So it’s a perfect chance to bring news of a couple of intriguing items sold at Derbyshire saleroom Hansons.
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Hansons to hold London sales in 2018
18 December 2017Derbyshire-based Hansons Auctioneers is opening a London saleroom, with plans to host fine art and antiques auctions once a month from February 2018.
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Lawrence of Arabia sandals emerge from supermarket carrier bag into Derbyshire auction
14 December 2017A supermarket carrier bag concealed a battle-weary but still wearable pair of sandals worn by Lawrence of Arabia.
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Horse whispers and festive song at Hansons
13 November 2017Not many new faces at salerooms can include among their experience “a trained horse whisperer”.
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Jimi Hendrix memorabilia strikes the right chord at auction
27 October 201750 years on and Hendrix still rocks – Hansons Auctioneers has sold a note, written on the back of a packet of guitar strings in 1967, for £5700.
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Owen once, Owen twice... Owen once, Owen twice... reticulated wares roll into two sales
23 October 2017Dominated by two lots of Chinese porcelain, the September 28-30 sale at Hansons (17.5% buyer’s premium) also included eight Royal Worcester pieces by George Owen (1845-1917) who was inspired by the Orient to produce his trademark reticulated wares.
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Where’s Wally? In the Etwall saleroom
16 October 2017Among the most coveted of all Martinware is the ‘Wally’ bird. These quirky and grotesque jars (really caricatures of people in Victorian London), were produced from the early 1880s onwards and were named after their maker Robert Wallace Martin, one of four brothers who ran the famous British pottery.
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Pick of the Week: Yongzheng dish serves £230,000
09 October 2017Hansons Auctioneers in Etwall, Derbyshire sold a Yongzheng (1723-35) mark and period dish for £230,000 (plus premium) on September 29.
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Charles Hanson sells Chinese dish for seven times estimate at Derbyshire auction
29 September 2017A Chinese dish, once valued on the BBC’s ‘Antiques Roadshow’, has sold at Hansons Auctioneers for £230,000.
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London coin company snaps up Roman hoard from Lincolnshire at Hansons
29 August 2017A world coin specialist vied with other bidders over a Roman coin hoard last week at Hansons Auctioneers.
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Medieval brooch is much loved by bidders at Hansons auction
28 August 2017Seven phone bidders competed for this 15th century gold heart-shaped brooch, a medieval gift of love from the time of the Wars of the Roses, at Hansons in Derbyshire.
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Matthews contracts score at auction
28 August 2017Sir Stanley Matthews’ first football contract showing the legend was paid a princely £5 a week has sold at Derbyshire saleroom Hansons.
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How the country house sale lives to fight another day
21 August 2017Recent country house contents sales at Chorley's, Halls and Hansons show that evolving the model is breathing new life into a traditional format.
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Heavyweight bids for a weight saving brooch
21 August 2017Medals and orders can be heavy things. So what better way to carry around your various hard-earned gongs than a one-size-fits-all miniature version of them all?
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Mysterious Iron Age find unearthed in the Peak District offered at Hansons
18 August 2017A mysterious 2000-year-old relic found in the Derbyshire Peak District by a local metal detectorist goes under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers next week.
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Chinese dish once valued at Antiques Roadshow heads to auction in Derbyshire
16 August 2017Hansons Auctioneers in Etwall, Derbyshire will offer a Yongzheng (1723-35) mark and period dish as part of its Fine Arts and Asian auction on September 29.
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