TW Gaze
Established in 1857 as an agricultural valuer and auctioneer, TW Gaze are based at Diss Auction Rooms on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.
With an emphasis on sales of household chattels, they host regular sales as well as specialist auctions covering areas such as furniture, architectural salvage and sporting items.
Norfolk auction sets record for autobiography of pioneering evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace
04 January 2021Bid to a record £1900 in a Norfolk auction was a 1905, two-volume first of 'My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions'.

Mobile wardrobe brings demand in Norfolk
19 October 2020At TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium) in Diss, Norfolk, on August 12 this early 20th century Louis Vuitton wardrobe trunk, no 796731, sold for £4200 against an estimate of £1800-2500.

Auction previews: issue 2464
19 October 2020A selection of 14 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and Ireland.

Calvert name check boosts chess set value
12 October 2020The white ‘rooks’ to this 19th century carved and turned wood chess set, offered by TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium) in Diss in August 12, are stamped Calvert 189 Fleet Street to their bases.

Names to note in Norfolk sale
05 October 2020Jane Austen was among the names to note in a recent Norfolk sale, with the day’s top bid securing a four-volume, 1818 first of Northanger Abbey & Persuasion.

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.

Constance Spry wall pockets for flowers rated high by devotees
06 April 2020Responsible for the flowers at the Queen’s coronation, the society florist Constance Spry (1886-1960) is also credited with the ‘democratisation’ of flower arranging.

Cut-outs sharp at two auctions
17 February 2020Sold for £4600 in a February 6 sale held in the Chichester salerooms of Stride & Son (18% buyer’s premium) was an album of cut-paper work produced by Elizabeth Cobbold c.1810-20.

Byron bit back at a vampire fib
17 February 2020Publisher tried to link book to the poet to boost sales but a revised version was issued instead

Misty mornings and marshland shine bright at auction
09 September 2019Complete with 16 tissue-guarded photogravure plates in the original, stylish decorative cloth binding, one of 200 standard copies of Peter Henry Emerson’s famous Marsh Leaves of 1895 was the star turn in a recent Norfolk sale.

Collectors tune into Diss sale for mechanical music delights
03 June 2019Best-seller and one of the biggest surprises at the white-glove sale of a mechanical music collection was a musical box, the catalogue entry of which could be summarised as ‘famous name, doesn’t work’.

Interior motives: how old school weekly sales are giving way to new auction formats
01 April 2019Weekly clearance sales are increasingly being replaced by newly branded formats as auction houses are responding to fresh consumer trends.

Collection of dealer Robert Barley up at auction
17 September 2018More than 500 lots of pictures, sculpture, furniture, textiles, architectural features and artefacts spanning 2000 years from the collection of the late Robert Barley, will come to auction at TW Gaze later this month.

“Never Boring” antiques dealer Robert Barley’s collection comes to auction in Norfolk
12 September 2018The collection of the “Never Boring” antiques dealer, the late Robert Barley, will come to auction at TW Gaze later this month.

Market confidence as regional firms invest in expansion
23 July 2018Auction houses in Bristol, Staffordshire and Norfolk have chosen to invest in new premises this year. Suggesting continued confidence in the regional auction market, Bristol Auction Rooms, Potteries Auctions and TW Gaze are planning to open new salerooms by the autumn.

Cashing in on flashy cases
12 March 2018Flash from the past at the Diss rooms of TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium).

Silver packs a punch in Diss
12 February 2018A good weight and a good name helped this London 1890 embossed silver punch bowl to double the lower estimate at TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium).

Suffolk railwayana steams into sale
18 December 2017More than 400 lots of railwayana, assembled from the 1950s onwards by a single collector, will be offered at Norfolk auction house TW Gaze on January 5.

TW Gaze plots expansion in Diss
23 November 2016Norfolk’s TW Gaze is expanding its saleroom after buying the freehold of the land.

The infant Hercules takes £29,000 at Norfolk salvage sale
01 September 2008Whilst perhaps better known for selling reclaimed building materials, T.W. Gaze of Diss in Norfolk consistently attract lots of a more decorative nature in their five architectural sales each year. Their August 16 sale included this very fine quality early 18th century marble study of a boy holding aloft a bearded mask.

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