Peter Francis
Welsh auction house Peter Francis have been based in their Towyside saleroom in Carmarthen since 2009, with a representative in Cardiff. The company was reacquired by Captain Peter Francis, a descendent of the original owner, in 2007.
They hold regular auctions of furnishings and collectables in addition to quarterly fine art and antiques sales. They also stage an annual Welsh Motoring Auction offering classic vehicles and automobilia.

Affordable art: Three works sold for under £600 including a Daniel Sherrin landscape
23 November 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Daniel Sherrin landscape.

Welsh auction houses to continue to host virtual auctions despite room bidding now permitted
06 August 2020The Welsh government has given auction houses the green light to open premises to the public this month.
Welsh auction houses must wait to fully reopen – but online trading continues
20 July 2020Although auction house premises in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland can (under restrictions) be open to the public, the official green light is yet to be received in Wales.

Rusting BP enamel sign is The Winner in Welsh sale
06 January 2020Rescued from a skip, a rusting British enamel advertising sign sold for £10,400 (plus 24% buyer’s premium) at auction in Carmarthen.

The latest Movers and Shakers across the art and antiques market including at Peter Francis and Phillips
05 November 2019An update on appointments across the world.

Made in Malines, sold in south Wales
16 September 2019Estimated at just £40-60, this ebonised wood and alabaster table casket sold to a bidder using thesaleroom.com for £1600 at Peter Francis (20% buyer’s premium) of Carmarthen on August 28.

Jug celebrates a rotten result in 1812 election
22 July 2019Anglicised, Anglican and Tory landowners controlled many aspects of Welsh life in the Georgian period – particularly when it came to politics.

Icons of France emerge in Carmarthen
18 March 2019This pair of plates, one of them extensively damaged and riveted, proved much more popular than predicted in a sale held in Carmarthen by Peter Francis (20% buyer’s premium) last month.

What lots caught bidders’ eyes in the last week? Six auction highlights including a Wedgwood vase, a 1968 The Doors tour poster and Italian marble sculptures
15 March 2019ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week.

Welsh auction house battles back from devastating deluge to achieve ‘a gratifying result’
04 March 2019Precisely four months on from a flood inundating its saleroom, Carmarthen auction house Peter Francis (20% buyer’s premium) enjoyed a literal and metaphorical day in the sunshine on February 13.

George II chandelier among the five auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes in the last week
15 February 2019ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week includes a George II chandelier and an architecture model of the Piazza del Duomo in Pisa.

What to See: Five art and antiques events in Wales this week
15 October 2018Buyers in Wales this week have a wealth of art and antiques to choose from including a 19th century traditional Welsh hat.

When British beer cans burst into life at auction
08 October 2018In the long history of beer, the can is a relative newcomer. The first canned beer came with the end of Prohibition in the US – the shiny new light-weight packaging used by Krueger’s in Richmond, Virgina, to market a pasteurised beverage from January 1935.

Search for promised land in Wales
06 August 2018This small 7 x 91/2in (18 x 24cm) oil on panel Biblical scene by the Victorian artist William Edward Frost (1810-77), below, doubled its top guide at Peter Francis (20% buyer’s premium) of Carmarthen on July 11.

Guards at the Carmarthen sale forefront
06 August 2018A famous royal regiment was remembered at the Peter Francis (20% buyer’s premium) auction in Carmarthen.

Welsh whisky bottles sell for over £14,000 at Carmarthen auction
20 December 2016English wines are steadily gaining a reputation for decent quality, with sparkling styles in particular starting to challenge Champagne as an alternative patriotic option. Back in 1889, it was Welsh whisky throwing the gauntlet down to Scotland in the hope of supping long-running success.

‘Yongzheng’ vase posts £114,500 record for Carmarthen auction house
09 November 2015Welsh auctioneers Peter Francis set a new house record when this 8in (19cm) celadon glazed vase sold via the-saleroom.com to a bidder from mainland China for £114,500.

Swansea tea caddy makes £9000
09 January 2014Top price of the day at Peter Francis’ recent sale in Carmarthen was provided by this 4½in (11cm) Swansea creamware tea caddy made in the early years of the Cambrian Pottery.

Globes from 1816 take £50,000 in Wales
09 April 2013This pair of full-size library globes was the pick of more than 800 lots from a Pembrokeshire country house sold by Carmarthen firm Peter Francis.

Beardsley’s drawing of Chopin knocked down to Maas
13 August 2012An illustration of the Polish composer Frederic Chopin by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) was the star attraction at a recent auction in Wales.

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