These fortnightly sales generally include approximately 1000 lots of all manner of collectables, art, furniture and furnishings. The majority of entries are from house clearances to include deceased estates. Lots 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.
These sales have featured on the BBC’s Antiques Road Trip, when we sold a rare circa 1860s French sub-miniature wet-plate fixed-focus camera discovered by Paul Laidlaw. It eventually sold over the telephone for £20,000 – a show record.
Entries close one week prior to auction.
Viewing – The day prior 10am-6pm and the morning of the sale from 8.45am.
Silversmithing in the United Kingdom represents one of the longest continuous craft traditions in Europe, and today’s makers operate within a tradition that spans more than a millennium.
We are pleased to offer two works by Sudbury-born artist Maggi Hambling in our 9th June Century 20/21 Art auction.
Among our Asian Art auction on 24 March is a charming group of 19th-century Chinese figural porcelains from a private English collection based in East Anglia.
A large and diverse single-owner collection of Lego sets ranging from classic Technic building groups to cinematic tie-in display pieces coming up in our forthcoming Toys & Models auctions.
Recent visitors to the auction centre will have noticed the large new building taking shape in our car park, which is now home to our ever-expanding Toys & Models department.
We are proud to present a collection of vintage movie posters that captures a defining era of modern cinema.