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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Archive of three Suffragette sisters sells at auction
09 July 2018An archive relating to three Suffragette sisters has been bought at a Hansons auction by a well-known dealer in memorabilia.
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Fascinating Suffragette archives sold in Derbyshire and coming up for sale in Surrey
03 July 2018An archive relating to three Suffragette sisters has been bought at Hansons’ July 2 auction by a world-renowned expert in the subject and dealer in memorabilia.
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Suffragette archive at auction reveals role of three sisters in the fight for women's right to vote
25 June 2018The 100th anniversary year of women winning the right to vote in Britain (for those over 30, owning property, or university educated, anyway) has encouraged a bumper crop of related items at auction.
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Pick of the Week: Fabergé blossoms in Teddington
18 June 2018“It was totally unexpected – as the best finds always are,” Derbyshire auctioneer Charles Hanson told ATG. “A client came along to our office in East Molesey carrying a cardboard box. Inside, wrapped in an old tea towel, was not one, but two, Fabergé flowers.”
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Watch auctioneer Charles Hanson selling his “most significant find ever”
14 June 2018Two rare Fabergé flowers brought to a routine valuation event wrapped in an old tea towel were sold in a sale conducted by auctioneer Charles Hanson this week.
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Two rare Fabergé flower ornaments sell for £340,000 at auction
11 June 2018A pair of delicate Fabergé flower ornaments stole the limelight at an auction in Teddington tonight.
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Charles Hanson withdraws ‘Nelson’s telescope’ from sale "pending further investigations"
22 May 2018Hansons Auctioneers has withdrawn from its July 2 sale a brass telescope purported to have been used by Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, after questions were raised about its authenticity.
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“My most significant find ever” – Charles Hanson on discovery of two rare Fabergé flowers
22 May 2018Auctioneer Charles Hanson has described the discovery of two rare Fabergé flowers during a routine valuation morning as his “most significant find ever”.
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Buyer nets Kangxi vase
30 April 2018A 10in (25cm) tall Kangxi period (1654-1722) rouleau vase painted with fishermen and cranes took a six-times estimate £2800 at the 1200-lot Spring Sale at Hansons (20% buyer’s premium) on March 22-26.
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Word on the street is of a Ravilious ‘record’
23 April 2018Brought into a free valuation day held at Bishop’s Cleve, near Cheltenham, a copy of Eric Ravilious’ High Street sold on March 27 at what would appear to be a record sum in a Derbyshire sale.
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Banned Georgian sex manual sells for 30 times estimate in Derbyshire
28 March 2018A once-banned Georgian manual containing the ‘secrets of sex’ flew past its estimate in a Derbyshire auction yesterday.
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Mary Fedden demand strong across UK
19 March 2018A pair of trademark gouaches by Mary Fedden (1915-2012) drew strong bidding at auctions in Derbyshire and Essex.
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Suffragettes in sashes replace snakes and ladders for board game up at auction
13 March 2018The suffragette memorabilia collecting market throws up some pretty strange items at times but few can be more unusual than the board game Pank-a-Squith.
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History reveals ghostly truth
12 February 2018It is a year now since Jim Spencer joined Derbyshire saleroom Hansons (20% buyer’s premium), tasked with building up the book sections of their sales.
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Gold ring found near minster sells at Hansons
05 February 2018An iconographic gold ring – perhaps once belonging to a bishop or senior member of the clergy in the Yorkshire area – sold for £7100 at Hansons (20% buyer’s premium) in Etwall, Derbyshire.
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Chinese bowls serve up six figures each
05 February 2018Promoted as including the contents from a Derbyshire country home, the three-day pre-Christmas sale at Hansons (17.5% buyer’s premium) was more notable for two unusual collections and pieces which came in after a valuation day.
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Coverage from range of regional salerooms
05 February 2018And still the lofts and attics of UK homes play their part in the lucrative China trade… A c.1800 Imperial yellow cushion cover was one example offered at Trevanion & Dean (19% buyer’s premium) in Whitchurch.
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Football programmes at auction recall when Wolves were champions of the world and inspired European Cup
01 February 2018Wolves may now be flying high at the top of the Championship after decades of underachievement but nearly 70 years ago they were soaring to European heights, as football programmes up at auction demonstrate.
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Strike a light for lost world of smoke
15 January 2018A gentleman retires to his designated smoker’s chair, picks up his meerschaum pipe and Dunhill lighter and puffs away contentedly by his hearth… a vanished scenario in the UK today but recreated in the antiques world in these three items from December auctions.
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