Keys
Keys is an auction house in Aylsham, Norfolk which was founded in 1953 by Geoffrey Key. Originally a livestock auctioneer, Keys soon began regular furniture sales before adding art and antique sales to its calendar in the 1960s.
In 2019, the auction business split from its estate agency parent company after a management buy-out was led by fine art director Kevin Lines and new managing director David Broom.

Dearth of dedicated sales but rich pickings still emerge at multi-discipline auctions
06 May 2019While dedicated sales of English and Continental ceramics are rarer beasts in the saleroom calendar these days, the traditional mixed-discipline regional sales are a repository for plenty of material from the main factories of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Five lots to watch at auction this week including a Lowestoft pug, an undiscovered melody by Elgar and Russian avant-garde art
25 March 2019With estimates from £150-15,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.

Lowestoft rarities emerge at Keys in Aylsham
18 March 2019The March Fine Sale at Keys in Aylsham, the first since a management buyout, includes both a group of Lowestoft rarities and pieces by other factories.

Affordable art: Three works priced under £900 in regional auctions including a David Bates view of the Wye
18 February 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £900, including a David Bates view of the Wye.

Auction house Keys plans for future after split from parent company
14 January 2019Norfolk auction house Keys has marked the end of its 65th year in business by gaining independence from its estate agency parent company.

‘A quite extraordinary day’ as sleeping Asian bronzes bring multi-estimate sums in regions
10 December 2018Two under-catalogued Sino-Tibetan bronzes illuminated the regional saleroom scene with multi-estimate sums in the final days of November.

Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £650 including a David Jagger portrait
23 October 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £650 and three upcoming lots offered the next week.
‘Big Top’ lots: Four circus-related collectables up for sale this autumn
16 October 2018It is not often that you get the chance to bid for your very own circus. But auction house Roseberys is offering just that. A handmade model of a circus is among the remarkable circus-related items up at auction this autumn. Here ATG selects four highlights.

Dangerous and hard to find: Rigby Graham’s 'The Casquets'
24 September 2018This linocut comes from one of just 30 copies of Rigby Graham’s 'The Casquets… the most dangerous Channel Islands' issued by the Brewhouse Press in 1972.

Orkney story emerges in Norfolk auction
10 September 2018One of the harder titles in the New Naturalist series to find today is RJ Berry’s Natural History of Orkney.

Rare Beano annual – without Dennis the Menace – offered at auction in Norfolk
24 August 2018A Beano annual, made before the famous character Dennis the Menace was introduced, is to be auctioned in Norfolk next week.

Wyndham wakes in Norfolk
02 July 2018Some 240 lots in a recent two-day book sale in Norfolk came from the library of local authors and collectors David and Patricia Cory, with science fiction, fantasy, ghost stories and crime fiction very much in evidence.

Saleroom selection: Three pictures under £1000
07 May 2018Three modestly valued works at regional sales.

Carrington shows her touch of tinsel
23 April 2018In the early 1920s, the artist Dora Carrington (1893-1932) began creating a series of foil glass paintings.

Saleroom selection: Three works at regional salerooms below £500
16 April 2018Three more modestly valued works drawing attention at regional sales

Marine diploma group passes Norfolk sale test
05 March 2018More than 100 paintings owned by the Royal Society of Marine Artists were dispersed in a Norfolk auction.

Of Mice and Men and Biggles
12 February 2018Michael Rothenstein’s illustration of Lennie Small and George Millon, the Californian migrant workers whose story is told in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, formed both the jacket illustration and the frontispiece (shown below) to the 1927, first UK edition.

Sailroom art – important collection of British marine art goes under the hammer
29 January 2018More than 100 paintings owned by the Royal Society of Marine Artists are to be sold at auction in Norfolk.

Auction house appointments at Moore Allen & Innocent and Keys
15 January 2018Lucie Rowe, who started her career with Cirencester auction house Moore Allen & Innocent 15 years ago as a part-time saleday porter, has been promoted to her first management position: assistant saleroom manager.

Warblers, hummers and hunters at auction
16 October 2017Pictures, prints and taxidermic displays accounted for the larger part of the Ornithology Sale held by Keys (17.5% buyer’s premium) on September 22, but it also offered some 175 book lots, many of them multiples.

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