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Full-service auction company that sells "just about anything," from box lots to whole-house estates, handling pickup at the client's site or consignments brought to its building. The house buys outright as well as selling on consignment, and its auctioneers are licensed and bonded in Ohio and West Virginia.

Specializes in Asian arts and antiques, with a focus on Chinese paintings, porcelains, and jade carvings, and says it is one of the premier places in Canada to offer such works. The Toronto-based house, founded in 2015 by a Chinese painting collector, runs both online and in-person auctions and offers multiple catalog sales a year. Its staff works in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, and it also travels to Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver.

First-Choice Auctions Ltd. specializes in estate items, coins & currency, restaurant & industrial equipment, tech products, collectibles, and big box retail merchandise. You never know what treasures you’ll find at this family-operated general merchandise auction house.

Specializes in antiques, retro goods, and collectables through an online auction house and secondhand shop serving London and Surrey, with departments spanning audio, HiFi and electronics, cameras and photography, militaria, toys and models, trading cards, and jewellery. Its family-run operation also offers probate contents valuation and clearance services, and a customer praised the firm's pricing transparency and prompt payment from an auction sale. Shoppers note the selection is large and prices compare favourably with central London.

Estate knife collections from makers including Benchmade, CRKT, Fox Knives, Cold Steel and ESEE lead this house's recent catalog, with 28 lots of mostly folding and pocket knives, several still sealed in original packaging. The house also runs heavy equipment sales from SDLANCH and WOLVERINE, offering mini excavators, skid steer attachments, golf carts and metal carports for local pickup in Franktown, Colorado. Its catalog also reaches vintage Americana, with coin-op machines, arcade games and Coca-Cola memorabilia offered out of Elizabeth, Colorado.

Idaho Auction Barn in Twin Falls runs real estate and estate-style auctions, with its visitor page highlighting past best sellers and a range of tools and sporting goods handled by its picture specialist. Customers describe the house as offering an "incredible assortment of unusual and interesting items," and reviewers praise its detailed, candid item descriptions and a national auction network that draws bidders beyond the local area.

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.

Sidcup Auction Rooms runs fortnightly two-day sales of antiques, collectables and general items, with 900-1200 lots per sale, and sells silver, gold, jewellery, pottery, porcelain, glass, crystal, prints, oil paintings, water colours, furniture, mirrors, metalware, military items, books and toys. The house also offers free valuations for items entered into its sales and a probate valuation service for executors, solicitors and beneficiaries, alongside full house clearances. It is based just off Sidcup High Street in Kent, where lots can be viewed before each sale.

Specializes in jewelry, coins, heavy equipment and antiques, with live and online auctions also featuring glassware, estate items and collectibles. The Milton, West Virginia house, which runs a satellite office in Pueblo, Colorado, says its team is family-operated and draws on more than 35 years of combined auction experience.

Estate Sales by Southern Trading Company specializes in estate sales featuring antiques, collectibles, art, and household items. They also handle senior moves and home staging, aiming to alleviate stress during life transitions.

Specializing in rare books, autographs, maps and prints, Bado e Mart's upcoming 10th September 2026 sale features early botanical and natural-history works such as Lemaire, Scheidweiler and Van Houtte's "Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe" and Tabernaemontanus's "Eicones Plantarum" (1590). Other lots include a Latin Bible from 1520, Carlevarijs's views of Venice and Merigot's views of Rome, plus Remondini's "The Twelve Months" with contemporary coloring. The Padua house, which also runs a Department of Ancient Books and Manuscripts and a Modern and Contemporary Art department, is holding a preview by appointment ahead of the sale.

Upcoming auctions include online property lots closing on Oct 26 in Gateshead, including a two-bedroom terraced house, with further closings on Oct 27 in Newcastle upon Tyne and Oct 30 for a one-bedroom flat in Gateshead. Later closings run from Nov 2 through Nov 20 across Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne, with a mixed-use Hartlepool property that has a ground-floor retail unit closing on Nov 12.

Specializes in Chinese art and antiquities, with recent news highlighting Song dynasty Five Great Kiln ceramics, ancient bronze ritual vessels from the Shang and Zhou periods, Qing dynasty jadeite carvings, and a contemporary art sale titled "紅噹噹." The house reports that its 2026 spring auction closed with a total of 1.31 億 (RMB 131 million), and its Singapore spring sale included a jade-themed session, "玉德雅集," that brought in S$11.42 million.

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.

Vondenhuevel Auctioneers LLC is holding an online-only automotive collection auction closing October 27, 2026, with a preview on October 26, alongside a firearms and sportsman sale that also closes October 27. Further online-only sales include a lawn, tools and household auction closing November 4 and a firearms sale featuring Browning, Benelli and Beretta models closing November 9.

Loudos Auctions Athens is holding a live auction at the War Museum Athens Foyer on Saturday, November 21, 2026, with registration from 5:00 pm EET and bidding starting at 6:15 pm EET, while the catalogue goes online on Monday, October 26 and the lots can be previewed at the company's Athens office from November 9 to 20 by appointment, with selected lots, high-estimate lots and all jewellery and watches also viewable at the venue from two hours before the sale. Bids can be placed live at the venue, online via Invaluable or Drouot, or by max absentee, telephone, or written absentee bid, with the in-house buyer's premium set at 17% plus VAT.

Specializes in estate sales, farm and ranch equipment, and business liquidations, with categories listed for coins and jewelry, antiques and collectibles, glassware, guns, ammo and knives, and tractors, cars, trucks and trailers. The Augusta, Kansas-based house, established in 1997, says its online simulcast auction averages 1850-plus bidders per auction.

Specializes in farm auctions, business dispersal auctions, and real estate auctions across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia, with a stated focus on farm land, acreages, and commercial property. The site emphasizes its online bidding platform and mobile app, and notes that the house runs yard locations in Strathmore and Alix, Alberta, with its headquarters in Strathmore.

Viewback Auctions Omagh specialises in antiques and general house-contents clearances, sold either at its Killadroy Road salesroom or on the vendor's own premises. Its current 2-stage general auction with antiques runs to 824 lots and features a French gilt mantel clock with Sèvres-style porcelain panels, a William IV mahogany dining table, a rare "Wear Lee" enamel sign for Lee of Cork, and a rare Tyrone-made Coalisland porcelain jug. The house also points to its record-setting Belleek sale of 2007, which made it the world record holder for prices achieved for Belleek and Coalisland porcelain.

Upcoming auctions include a General Auction on October 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM and a Premier Auction on November 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM, both hosted by Berner's Auction, Inc. in Central Florida. The house, a third-generation family business established in 1952, also runs a furniture marketplace with gently used pieces sourced from auctions and estate sales.

Savannah Liquidation runs online auctions for surplus retail merchandise, including air conditioners, tools, furniture, table games, TVs, computers, and electronics. The house says it stocks much of what big-box retailers sell, and its warehouse reportedly moves over 1,000 items a week. Auctions close on a recurring schedule, with several closing each week.