These three-weekly sales are the largest of their kind in East Anglia, generally totalling approx 1200 lots sold across two rooms. The majority of entries are from house clearances to include deceased estates. Lots generally range from modest items worth a few pounds, to good quality reproduction furniture and Georgian and later antiques selling for up to £1000. Collectables include; ceramics, silver, jewellery, dolls, books, and mixed box lots of ephemera.
A recent highlight was the sale of a rare circa 1860s French sub-miniature wet-plate fixed-focus camera as discovered by Paul Laidlaw and featured on the BBC’s Antiques Road Trip. It eventually sold over the telephone for £20,000 – a show record.
Entries close one week prior to auction.
Viewing – The day prior 10am-7pm and the morning of the sale from 8.45am.
Fake news! Climate Change! Conspiracy Theories! Religious discrimination! Suspicion of the state! Current social and mainstream media has nothing on 17th century printed sermons, which could spark rebellions and lose heads.
A stand-alone auction of works by and the collection of late Modern British artist Peter Jackson (1930-2019).
Our June auction includes a pair of silver candlesticks presented to Admiral Francis William Austen with thanks from the East India Company for escorting a convoy from St Helena in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars