Noonans
Noonans is a London auction house which specialises in coins, medals, militaria, banknotes, jewellery, watches and antiquities.
It was founded in 1990 by Nimrod Dix, Pierce Noonan and Christopher Webb, and was previously known as Dix Noonan Webb. In April 2022 it announced it was changing its name to Noonans, part of a general rebranding rather than indicating any change of ownership
With offices in Mayfair, the specialist auctioneers also handle private treaty sales.
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Medal awarded to Suffragette who threw a lump of iron at Churchill's car comes up at auction
09 January 2021How could throwing a missile at Winston Churchill’s car earn you a medal if you were British?
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Fishing trip that sank enemy ships
14 December 2020After a somewhat chequered period before the war, during which his employment ranged from gold-digging and sailing the South Sea Islands to running a camel racing team and a betting shop, Lt Hubert (Ted) Carse of the the Royal Australian Naval Reserve ended up as a hero.
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Hughie Green took his flying opportunity
14 December 2020Hughie Green (1920-97) is well known as star of film, radio and TV, such as Opportunity Knocks – and a colourful personal life such as being father to Paula Yates. However, he also had a long and eventful career in aviation.
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Falklands War honours fetch six figures
14 December 2020The Falklands War was 38 years ago now. However, for medal collectors the conflict is very much in mind, as evidenced by two six-figure results recently at London saleroom Dix Noonan Webb (24% buyer’s premium).
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Owner history of recusant chalice
07 December 2020With the defeat of Catholic attempts against the Protestant monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries, penal laws were imposed in Ireland.
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New hires and an expanded saleroom – the latest news around the auction houses
19 November 2020A Hampshire saleroom has expanded and there are new faces at a host of auction houses – read our latest Movers and Shakers.
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Museum buys memorial plaque of Great War’s ‘first black officer’
14 November 2020The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) has bought a First World War ‘dead man’s penny’ memorial plaque.
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Remembering the Great War’s ‘first black officer’
02 November 2020A First World War ‘dead man’s penny’ memorial plaque awarded to a soldier believed to be the first black officer commissioned into a British army regiment during the conf lict and the first black officer casualty is coming up at auction.
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Islamic & Indian art: 11 auction previews for October 2020
12 October 2020A wealth of Indian and Islamic art and artefacts are available to view and buy in late October from both participants at Asian Art in London and auction houses whose sales are timed to coincide with the festival.
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Very early Victoria Cross awarded for Crimean War gallantry features in London auction
01 October 2020One of the earliest Victoria Crosses ever awarded is coming to auction at London specialist saleroom Dix Noonan Webb.
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Dealer Jack Webb’s superb 1000-lot militaria collection brings white-glove result
28 September 2020London dealer Jack Webb, who died last year aged 94, was known for the variety of unusual pieces at his Camden Passage shop, but the D-Day veteran’s personal enthusiasm was for militaria.
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US hero given British honour
28 September 2020As heroic a defence against the odds as Rorke’s Drift, and certainly more important, the twin battles of Imphal and Kohima are much less well known.
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Maintaining a gold standard: Coins market focus
21 September 2020Coinex, the traditional autumn focus for the numismatic world, is cancelled this year.
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Antiques dealer's French imperial naval eagle soars at auction
24 August 2020According to his family, this French imperial naval eagle was purchased by the dealer Jack Webb (1923-2019) from a ‘totter’ in the early 1970s over the counter at his shop in Camden Passage.
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D-Day veteran who became an antiques dealer
03 August 2020John Vernon ‘Jack’ Webb (1923-2019) was destined to be a collector of medals and militaria. On June 5, 1944, he was on a troop ship preparing to take part in the D-Day landings.
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Sarah Bernhardt: jewels from the first global celebrity, quand même
29 June 2020Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) – the first actress to achieve worldwide celebrity – continues to command attention as her work on stage and screen fades into the distant past.
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Bidding contest for Nelson letter from HMS Victory and medal group from Battle of the Nile
22 June 2020A signed memorandum letter sent by Nelson from HMS Victory to one of his captains sold for a mid-estimate £3200 at a recent TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium) auction in Diss in Norfolk.
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Medal awarded to Victorian soldier wounded at Rorke’s Drift sells to doctor at auction
22 June 2020A Zulu War medal awarded to a Victorian soldier severely wounded while fighting in the hospital building at Rorke’s Drift has been bought at auction – by a doctor.
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Lemania – maker to the British forces
15 June 2020Lemania is a name that should be as well-known as that of Omega or Tissot. The firm – dubbed by one watch blogger as ‘the greatest maker of watches that you may never have heard of’ – provided every single chronograph movement that those much better-known brands used until the 1970s.
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A feline vesta case and a Stuart embroidered panel are among six lots to watch at auction this week
18 May 2020With estimates from £60-6000 here are six previews of upcoming items.
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