Summers Place Auctions
Summers Place Auctions are a saleroom specialising in garden statuary and natural history
The current firm was formed in 2008 after Sotheby’s closed their saleroom in Billingshurst and a new company was established in the West Sussex town headed by James Rylands and Rupert van der Werff.
In 2012, Summers Place Auctions moved into their new gallery space and, in 2013, they held their first Evolution sale, including taxidermy, natural history, fossils and minerals – the highlight being a 57ft long Diplodocus.

Extraordinary hidden statuary brings demand out in the open at Summers Place
02 November 2020An extraordinary group of garden statuary, unseen for decades, was offered for sale recently at Summers Place Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Billingshurst, West Sussex.

Carved Cotswold stone seats take their place in pick of five auction highlights sold this week
09 October 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes stone seats unseen for decades and discovered in a hidden sunken garden.

Statues surface from sunken garden site after decades in the undergrowth
24 August 2020An extraordinary cache of garden statuary, unseen for decades, comes for sale at Summers Place Auctions next month.

Summers Place Auctions' last-minute decision to take remote bids only pays off
27 April 2020The sale at garden statuary specialist Summers Place Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Billingshurst on March 24 (the day after lockdown) was among the first conducted under new government restrictions on social distancing.

A Queen Anne-style giltwood dressing mirror and a First World War propeller chair are among four lots to watch this week
23 March 2020With estimates from £1000-10,000 here are four previews of upcoming items this week that you can view and bid for remotely.

Treasures of the natural world (but in skeletal or stuffed form…)
02 December 2019Extinct for 65 million years, dinosaurs continue to rule the world of children visiting the National History Museum, of multi-million dollar movie makers – and of bidders at the Evolution Sales at Summers Place Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

Five lots to watch at auction this week including a rediscovered Paul Nash painting, a tripod table and a rare sampler
18 November 2019With estimates from £600-70,000, here are five previews of upcoming sales this week.

Rare circular Georgian cistern emerges at Summers Place
14 October 2019Always popular items, a Georgian lead cistern offered at Summers Place Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) was also rare in being circular. Usually they are rectangular, having stood against a wall connected to downpipes.

Church gates lead to bidding battles in two salerooms
01 July 2019In market terms, ecclesiastical gates are not the subject of mass appeal but examples by major 19th century designers certainly had their devotees at two June sales.

Five lots to watch at auction this week including a rare pair of Jagger statues, a Winston Churchill letter and an Indian toy soldier
10 June 2019With estimates from £500-400,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.

Berlin Wall fragments sell in West Sussex auction
19 March 2019Two fragments of the Berlin Wall once used in a memorial to those killed in escape attempts sold for a combined hammer total of £17,000 at an auction in West Sussex last week.

Five lots to watch at auction this week including prestigious Georgian-style entrance gates and a Charles II sterling silver tankard
11 March 2019With estimates from £500-25,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.

Auctioneers offer golden oldies
10 December 2018Illustrated here are some of the oldest lots ever auctioned – three in the Evolution Sale at on November 20 at Summers Place Auctions (25/20% buyer’s premium) of Billingshurst, West Sussex, and the other from Fonsie Mealy (23% buyer’s premium inc VAT) of Castlecomer, Ireland, in a sale held on the same day.

Giant mammoth skeleton takes top spot at West Sussex auction
29 November 2018Mammoths may be long extinct, but one still set hearts racing in a recent sale at Summers Place Auctions.

Six auctions to watch this week (November 19-25, 2018) with lots including a Medieval manuscript and a large Delftware collection
19 November 2018From manuscripts and Delftware to cabinets and combs, here are six previews from upcoming sales this week.

‘Conservatory’ Coalbrookdale table sells at Summers Place
22 October 2018Coalbrookdale cast-iron furniture, subject to ebbs and flows of fashion, has dipped a little in recent years, but this c.1850 occasional table is a rarity. It was surely made for the conservatory rather than the garden.

Getting stuffed is a good move for auctioneers
15 October 2018Taxidermy, having emerged in a few years from a dusty, rather unseemly subject to a rostrum hot topic, continues to flourish across the country.

Summers Place Auctions marks a decade of quirky offerings
14 May 2018Whether you’re in the market for mammoths or missiles, for 10 years Summers Place Auctions has been a likely destination. In 2008 SPA held its first auction, having been formed the year before.

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