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The Leonard Company, Chicago (Appraisals | Auctions | Concierge) is holding an August Estates Online Auction beginning at 10am CST today.

Specializes in pawn lending and buying of gold, silver, diamonds, and jewelry in Boise, Meridian, and Nampa, with content covering 14k and 18kt pieces, dental gold, Carson City silver dollars, and 1847 and 1853 U.S. coins. The house also runs a Boys Toys and Girls Bling auction extravaganza and an Executive Coin Shop, and its journal offers guidance on pricing luxury watches, designer handbags, and power-tool batteries. Its blog ranks Idaho Pawn & Gold as a first-place pawn shop winner, a claim it promotes heavily alongside holiday-season borrowing advice.

Buys homes for cash across the UK, specialising in unmortgageable residential, mixed-use and commercial properties, as well as abandoned bungalows, with sales promised in 7 to 28 days. It also runs an online property auction that markets homes on Rightmove and Zoopla, targeting a secure buyer within 21 days, alongside assisted sales and interest-free cash advances. Customer testimonials praise the no-fee, hassle-free process, though those claims are the firm's own marketing.

Valley Auctions specializes in estate sales, antiques, firearms, and collectibles, with a recent focus on Colt and sporting arms, including a 1961 Browning Sweet 16 shotgun and a Colt 1911 Texas Ranger special edition with consecutive serial numbers. The Hurricane, West Virginia house, which grew out of Valley Outdoors, also handles vehicles, farm equipment, tools, and gold, silver, and jewelry. Its latest firearms sale was run as a soft-close online auction on Proxibid.

Emirates Auction specializes in UAE license plate auctions, with lots including Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, RAK and UAQ plates alongside premium packages and unique numbers. The house also runs car, property, jewellery and watch, and ship and barge sales, and its site highlights a record-setting sale of Abu Dhabi plate No. 1 for $14.2 million. The site's headline record is the sale of plate P-7 for AED 55 million, which it presents as the most expensive car license plate.

307 Extreme Auction specializes in equipment sales, including oilfield equipment, farming equipment, tools, trucks and trailers, running full-service consignment sales through online auction platform Hibid.com. The Casper, Wyoming house also offers estate sales and says it has 10 acres of storage, with the option to sell from a customer's location when needed. Its current online sale features tools, a truck and a trailer, with buyers picking up items in Evansville, Wyoming.

Gatlin Auction, a full-service house in Pueblo West, Colorado, handles a broad mix of consignments, from antiques and collectibles and estate and household contents to farm and ranch goods, trucks, trailers, and construction machinery. The firm says it has served Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma clients for nearly four decades, and it also runs benefit and charity sales and internet-only and webcast auctions. Its site stresses free consultations for sellers and an email list for bidders who want notice of upcoming sales.

Specializes in estate liquidations, downsizing, and real-estate auctions in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle, with online and live sales covering furniture, vintage items, tools, and advertising. The house also runs fundraiser and charity auctions and recently began offering small-item delivery within a 100-mile radius, priced by load and per-mile rate.

Nesbits, a Portsmouth and Southsea firm established in 1921, is best known locally for its property auctions and fine art and antique auctions, which it says it has run regularly for 100 years and which it presents as the South Coast's longest-established auction house. The house also offers bespoke single-owner collection sales, and the site notes that its current auction listings include residential properties sold by public auction. For color, one customer review describes the firm's long-established local presence as inspiring confidence, and the site says its staff have been with the firm for a very long time.

Upcoming auctions include an absolute live sale of an executive home on 2.75 acres in Summerville, Georgia on Oct 24, followed by a ranch retirement sale of excavators, trailers, tools and a UTV in Cañon City, Colorado on Oct 26, and on Oct 27 an automotive collection auction in Sidney, Ohio alongside a Columbia, Missouri micro auction of a 1968 Chevy pickup and skid steer brush cutter. Further sales in the window include a sporting estate of firearms, taxidermy mounts and ammunition in Charleston, South Carolina on Oct 28, the Montana Sporting Auction (Fall 2026) on Oct 29, and the Youngren Estate in Reed Point, Montana on Nov 5.

iBidOnStorage runs online auctions for the contents of unpaid and abandoned self-storage units, with lots drawn from facilities such as Rent a Space, Kennards Self Storage, Storage King and National Storage across Australia. Current featured listings show high bids ranging from $200 to $1,530, with locations spanning New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. The site pitches the hobby as a chance to turn "trash into cash" from home, with blog pieces on what turns up in units and on the reality show Storage Wars.

Upcoming auctions include a real estate and estate sale on October 24, 2026, beginning at 10:00 AM in Springfield, Missouri. McKnight Auction Service & Realty, LLC is also accepting consignments and offering online and on-site auction services for sellers across Southwest Missouri.

Ma San Auction, a Bath house specialising in the valuation and sale of Chinese antiques and Asian works of art, has highlighted recent results including a Chinese famille rose porcelain beaker vase from the Qianlong period, a carved grey limestone head of a Luohan from the Song to Ming dynasties, and a polished bronze tripod censer bearing a Xuande mark. The family-run firm, which reports a 96% sell-through rate at its September sale, also offers continuous online auctions and free valuations, with a Burmese sapphire and a celadon jade tripod vessel among its other recent sales.

Highway 64 Auctions is holding Ring 1 and Ring 2 sales on Friday, December 4, with an online-only sale on Sunday, December 6 beginning at 8:00 AM, and it will start accepting consignments on Monday, November 9. Online buyers in the ring sales pay a 5% premium capped at $1,000, while the online-only sale carries a 10% premium.

Jonesboro Auto Auction, based in Jonesboro, Arkansas, lists a broad range of motorized and heavy equipment, including cars, trucks and vans, commercial and heavy-duty trucks, construction and agricultural equipment, aircraft, boats, motorcycles, and RVs and campers. Its category filters run to extreme detail, with dozens of trailer and truck body styles such as car carriers, dump trailers, and tank trucks, plus harvesters, cranes, and forestry machinery. The sheer length of the body-style menu suggests a house that handles fleet, farm, and commercial surplus as much as passenger vehicles.

Specializes in online estate and consignment auctions featuring antiques, collectibles, sports memorabilia, coins, jewelry, and tools, with weekly sales running Friday to Wednesday. The family-owned Saginaw, Michigan house also takes business liquidations, overstock, and equipment, and will even sell vehicles and watercraft off location on request.

First Choice Property & Auctions specializes in online property auctions across Scotland, selling residential homes, flats, farms, park homes, commercial premises, and development land in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee. Featured lots include a Dundee period house at 82 Seafield Road listed at a £359,000 guide price, and a Glasgow underground parking space in Merchant City with a £15,000 guide. The site pitches a "No Sale = No Fees" model, with no upfront listing fees and a 28-day sale guarantee for sellers.

Upcoming auctions include the October Signature Estate Event, a curated gallery sale of estate pieces from North Texas and beyond, listed for October 31–November 1, 2026, though one listing also cites October 30.

Upcoming auctions include an online-only Firehouse Antique Auction, with bidding closing Thursday, October 29 at 5:00 PM CST, followed by by-appointment checkout in Springfield, Missouri from Saturday, October 31 through Thursday, November 5, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The lots include firehouse and firefighter memorabilia, World's Fair collectibles, antique advertising and signage, and St. Louis, Springfield, and Marshfield collectibles.

Specializes in commercial and industrial auctions and business liquidations, handling everything from food service equipment, machinery and vehicles to real estate and personal property. The Florida-based house, founded in 1960 and family owned since, has also auctioned classic cars and antiques, and says it has sold items ranging from airplanes to zebras.

Peterson Land & Auction, a south central South Dakota firm, handles both real estate and auctions, with its featured listings including a 2026 PLA Year-End Auction, a turnkey home or vacation rental near American Creek, a Cedar Heights residential lot, and an online equipment liquidation auction for Hutmacher Drilling Inc. The company also offers planning help for auctions of personal property or real estate and says it provides no-obligation consultations. Its site lists upcoming auctions alongside residential, land, and commercial listings.