Lyon & Turnbull
Edinburgh auction house Lyon & Turnbull has been operating since 1826 in Scotland. The company specialises in fine art, jewellery and antiques.
They hold about 30 auctions a year including dedicated sales such as Scottish paintings, European and British paintings, furniture, silver, books and furniture.
In 2000 the business formed a marketing alliance with US auctioneers Freeman's of Philadelphia.
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Pick of the week: Disc-end spoon discovery scoops £21,000
24 August 2020While most early Scottish spoon types follow closely known and comparable patterns from England or mainland Europe, the ‘disc-end’ is an exception. Made for perhaps a century from c.1580, it is a form seemingly unique to Scotland.
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Pendant with hallmarks of Andrew Grima shines in Edinburgh sale
17 August 2020Many jewels by Anglo-Italian designer Andrew Grima carry the mark HJCo for the Haller Jewellery Company, the workshop of Grima’s father-in-law where he first found work in the accounts department in 1946. It was not until two years later that (untrained) he moved into design.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £750 including a Landseer ink on paper
17 August 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an work on paper by Sir Edwin Landseer.
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Selling rate strong for Scottish art
10 August 2020Just three lots unsold in Edinburgh auction as private and international bidders dominate
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Letters feature prominently in exceptionally varied Edinburgh auction
03 August 2020An exceptionally varied and very successful recent Scottish sale contained a great many letters and plenty of fascinating manuscript material.
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Inscribed first edition of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone makes £100,000
22 June 2020One of the few first-edition copies of 'Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone' inscribed and signed by JK Rowling has sold at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh for £100,000 (plus 25% premium).
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Far Eastern works from Earls of Crawford and Balcarres lift auction North of the Border
01 June 2020Scotland’s key role in the 18th and 19th century China trade has a legacy. Some of the nation’s country houses remain the repository of important Far Eastern works of art.
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Men of letters: Dickens and Burns light up works on paper parade
25 May 2020Two outstanding works on paper – a letter by Robert Burns and a page from the manuscript for Charles Dickens’ 'Pickwick Papers' – headline the June offerings across the field of books, maps and prints.
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Paul Nash drawing and a model train among four lots to watch at auction this week
25 May 2020With estimates from £3000-60,000 here are four previews of upcoming items this week.
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Antiquities get ahead of the rest
25 May 2020Among the top-estimated lots at the Lyon & Turnbull (25% buyer’s premium) sale of African & Oceanic Art, Antiquities and Natural History in Edinburgh on May 5 was a hammered bronze Apulo-Corinthian helmet from southern Italy, c.350-500BC.
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Scottish country house supplies £36,000 vase
18 May 2020A Beijing enamel vase from a Scottish country house topped the Asian art sale held ‘behind closed doors’ by Lyon & Turnbull (25% buyer’s premium).
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Auction previews: issue 2443
18 May 2020The auction calendar has been much changed by Covid 19 restrictions. However, as indicated by these lots offered for sale, an increasing number of auction houses are transacting safely behind closed doors holding timed sales or ‘live online’ sales with bids taken via bidding platforms such as thesaleroom.com or over the phone. Typically purchases can either be collected safely and couriered, or stored by the auction house until the current government guidance is lifted. With auction houses set to be able to be reopen premises to the public from June 1, more and more sales are now being added to the auction calendar.
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Ancient Greek helmet and Martin Brothers’ vase are among four lots to watch at auction this week
04 May 2020With estimates from £50-9000 here are four previews of upcoming items this week.
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Auction house reports boost for less familiar names as bidders scan catalogues in detail
04 May 2020One of the side-effects for the art market of being in a lockdown is that people have more time to discover works that they might have otherwise missed or overlooked.
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Bellany results remain buoyant
04 May 2020Works by the prolific John Bellany (1942-2013) appear regularly at auction, with small drawings often available for hundreds of pounds, but the larger and vigorously coloured figurative oils generally make many thousands.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £800 including a Brangwyn and Urushibara woodcut
20 April 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Brangwyn and Urushibara woodcut
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Lyon & Turnbull show how live performances create a show with a buzz
13 April 2020Although premises are closed, online selling can help to create a sale day sense of excitement
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Cat’s out of the bag – May emerges from behind the Morris curtain
06 April 2020Although often overshadowed by her famous father William, May Morris (1862-1938) was herself an important figure in the British Arts & Crafts movement.
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“The longest time I have ever spent on the rostrum” – Lyon & Turnbull’s live online sale delivers results
03 April 2020Lyon & Turnbull held a remarkably successful sale of Decorative Arts on April 1 – the firm’s first using the ‘live online’ format.
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Vendors support Lyon & Turnbull’s move to sell online
27 March 2020The Edinburgh and London auction house Lyon & Turnbull is to press ahead with its two April sales as ‘live online only’ events. The firm’s sales of Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 (April 1) and Contemporary & Post-War Art (April 16) will feature auctioneer Gavin Strang on the rostrum in Edinburgh but no one else in the room.
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