Even though there's three months' time between each Fine Art Sale, the work starts almost as soon as the latest one ends, with valuation days playing a big part of getting in the items for that next sale. Every once in a while you find that little gem, that certain something that gets the blood…
In house the anticipation for the August Fine sale was high, with it being our first fine sale since we'd all come back to work. Before the cataloguing was finished we'd all made guesses about how big the sale was going to be. We all figured it was going to be a decent size sale,…
You can always count on the silver section of the sale to do well and hold its own against the other sections of the sale, and the silver in our 19th August sale was no different. The star of the silver section was a tie between lot 370 - "A large Victorian silver lidded jug,…
Our 19th August Fine Art Sale featured some rare to the market bank notes which generated incredible interest, many phone lines and bidders travelling from far and wide to be in the room to bid. There were 54 lots of bank notes in the sale, with multiple phone lines booked for every note, with them…
Wow. That's probably the best word to describe the Railwayanna section of our 19th August Fine Art Sale. We knew this was going to to be an exciting section of the sale, and the feedback we had been receiving was that there was a lot of interest within the Railwayanna collecting community. The Railwayanna section…
Here's a preview of a few of the Welsh ceramic lots in our 19th August Fine Art sale
Lot 1 - A solitaire diamond ring, the round brilliant cut diamond approximately 3cts, with baguette cut shoulders to a white metal setting and shank marked PLAT, size P 1/2, approximately 5 gramsEstimates: £8,000 - 10,000 Diamond rings are always a big draw in the jewellery section of our Fine Art sales, so we thought…
Now that our first sale post-lockdown has finished and our buyers are collecting, the Auctioneer has begun his preparations for our 19th August Fine Art sale. The Photographer has been busy photographing lots which we had in already, but it's not too late to come see us and consign items to this sale! Our deadline…
Our 15th July sale catalogue is now live, and will be our first opportunity to welcome our buyers back to the saleroom. Precautions in line with the government guidelines are being taken, and the salerooms have been laid out on a one-way system for viewing. We ask that where possible, while on the premises, our…
This past Friday saw a staggering array of items come in for valuation, and ultimately for auction. Our valuer was kept on his toes all day, and was very excited by the variety that kept coming into the auction house. Our next valuation day is Friday, 31st January, and is the penultimate valuation day for…
