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Adams Auctioneers of Dublin specializes in fine art, with a strong focus on Irish art, and names Jack Butler Yeats and John Michael Wright among its artists. Its recent highlights include an Irish painting by Yeats that sold for €400,000 and a Minh Mạng-period lot, alongside sales covering fine jewellery, fine watches, rare books and manuscripts, fine Asian art, and fine wine and spirits. The house bills itself as the home of Irish art and says it was founded in 1887.

Upcoming auctions include an estate sale of Moorcroft, Royal Doulton, Victorian epergnes and Dresden figurines, and a fine furnishings and collectibles sale, both with bidding opening Friday, October 23rd, while the ongoing fall fine art sale features a 1905 Florence Carlyle oil and a Jack Bush landscape study. The November Art Session I, billed as the gallery's largest art offering of 2026, has no set date in the source, and the Holiday Art Auction, opening December 18th, falls outside the search window.

Upcoming auctions include Jewellery - October, with bidding closing on Sunday 1 November, and One Woman's Wardrobe: The Art of Acquisition, closing Tuesday 3 November, while Interiors & Collectibles - November, Fine Art Focus runs from 3 to 15 November. Asian Ceramics & Works of Art - November runs from 5 to 19 November, and Fine Jewellery, Part Two (9–22 November), Hermès Handbags & Accessories, Part One (9–26 November), and Fine Watches, Part One (9–29 November) all begin on 9 November.

Upcoming auctions include a fine and decorative art and early maps sale from Southern estates on Oct 27, followed by a modern and contemporary, ethnographic, and advertising sale on Oct 28 featuring mid-century furniture, automobilia, and 1960s concert posters. A jewelry, luxury, silver, and Asian art sale runs Oct 29, highlighting luxury brand goods, a Tiffany flatware service, and a jade-mounted hand mirror; all three sessions start at 10:00 AM EDT.

Salem Art House specializes in auctions featuring fine art, antiques, and estate collections. The house also offers private sales and gallery consideration for select pieces. Interesting things pass through here.

Burstow & Hewett is holding a Luxury Watches, Jewellery and Silver sale on 23 October, which is listed as closed, followed by Homes & Interiors sales in Battle, East Sussex on 28 October (collectables, ceramics, pictures and silver) and 29 October (toys, books and cigarette cards at 9am, and furniture and rugs at 12pm), plus The Africa Room single-owner tribal art and antiquities sale on 18 November. Further sales are a Luxury Watches, Jewellery and Silver sale on 19 November at 10am with Fine Art & Sculpture at 2pm the same day, and a second Luxury Watches day on 20 November at 10am.

Charleston's Fine Art Auctions is holding an exceptional home contents auction on Sunday, November 1st, 2026, featuring furniture, homewares, decorative objects, and artwork.

Upcoming auctions include Editions, closing October 29, 2026, with prints by leading international and Canadian artists. On November 5, Scottish silver from the Lindsay Collection, wristwatches and pocket watches, and Discovery Art close, followed on November 12 by Waddington's West studio pottery, a Cabinet of Curiosities with nearly 200 lots, and rugs and carpets. Three Major Fall Auctions close on November 19: fine art, First Nations art, and Inuit art.

Upcoming auctions include a Fine Asian Art sale on Monday 9 November at 9:30am, led by a seated gilt-bronze Shakyamuni Buddha (£8,000–£12,000), a carved jade mountain (£15,000–£25,000), and a rare sandstone figure of Parvati (£30,000–£50,000), with public viewings in London on 1–3 November and in Frome on 6–8 November. A Collectors' Cars sale follows on Saturday 21 November at Concours House, Bradford on Avon, which is now accepting entries.

Upcoming auctions include a live and online Cobridge Saleroom sale at Stoke-on-Trent on October 30, 2026, featuring 20th-century ceramics from makers such as Wedgwood, Beswick, Royal Doulton, Moorcroft and Coalport, alongside furniture, silver, coins and jewellery, with viewing on October 29. Potteries Specialist Auctions is also holding a three-day Silverdale Saleroom sale of rare 20th-century British pottery, antique furniture, fine art, militaria, jewellery, silver and collectables on November 12, 13 and 14, 2026, with viewing on November 11; highlights include a rare Martin Brothers bird jar, a Minton pâte-sur-pâte vase, an extensive Moorcroft collection, an L. S. Lowry print and historic England football caps.

Helmuth Stone Gallery runs a fine art, antiques, and jewelry auction house with separate collecting categories for American and European works, antiques, and modern pieces. The house bills itself as a premier venue for fine art, antiques, jewelry, and more, and says a catalog for its next sale is coming soon.

Wickliff Auctioneers describes its online, live, estate sale, real estate, and benefit auction services, along with specialty collections such as fine art, fine jewelry, decorative arts, firearms and militaria, and coins, but the source text does not list any specific auction dates or lots falling within October 23 to November 22, 2026, so no upcoming sale can be confirmed from this material.

Upcoming auctions include Fine Australian Art on Monday 26 October 2026 at 6pm, followed by the Rare + Beautiful sale on 16 November 2026, with catalogues available to view online, as a flipbook, or for purchase.

M.S. Rau sells fine art, antiques and jewelry, with headline works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Berthe Morisot and Fernand Léger, alongside pieces from David Webb, Bulgari and Harry Winston. The New Orleans gallery, founded in 1912, also runs online virtual exhibitions such as "Art & Celebrity" and "American Icons," with a rotating "Just Acquired" section of new additions. Its jewelry offerings include a 464.27-carat diamond football and a 164.02-carat emerald-cut diamond rivière necklace.

Upcoming auctions include the Singapore Collectors' Edit: Watches sale, running 21–28 October 2026, whose standout lot is an F.P. Journe lineSport Centigraphe Sport estimated at 320,000–600,000 SGD, while the Geneva Fine Watches sale runs from 27 October to 10 November 2026. Paris holds the Part II and Part III sales of the Cheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah Al Thani residence collection on 5 November 2026 at 10:30 AM and 6:00 PM CET, and the Important Watches sale in Geneva follows on 8–9 November 2026.

Cedarburg Auction & Appraisals LLC is holding an End of Summer Auction on October 22nd featuring medical books, antique microscopes, television and radio memorabilia, works by Dean Meeker, and mid-century furnishings. An Antiques & Fine Arts Extravaganza auction is scheduled for October 29th, with items including jewelry, oriental collections, Victorian furniture, rugs, clocks, radios, Arts & Crafts pieces, antique lighting, statues, Lalique, Lladro, Mettlach steins, and art by various artists.

Upcoming auctions include a fine art auction ending October 24, featuring paintings, drawings, timepieces, and jewelry. On October 26, auctions will be held for weed/moss control products, two light trucks, and new drones with 4K cameras. Additional auctions scheduled for October 28 and 29 will offer household items, glass sliding door systems, and more glass sliding doors. October 30 features garden houses, carports, and new garden houses. November 3 includes Hummel Goebel items, and November 4 offers various estate goods starting at 1 euro. New consumer goods, Christmas decorations, and sanitary items will be auctioned on November 9. Finally, quality office furniture will be auctioned on November 19.

Specializes in lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, with its recently closed sale of the Clarence R. Decker Collection bringing $335,163 in total sales including buyer's premium. Top lots included Wreck of the Ol' 97 (1944) at $15,500 and Jessie and Jake (1942) and The Race (1942), each at $14,000. The sale drew registered bidders from 34 states and 49 countries, and the house is now accepting consignments for a winter auction of jewelry, fine art, and historical collectibles.

Saturday Auction sells antique furniture and period pieces, fine art, paintings and prints, gold, silver and jewellery, coins, medals and militaria, vintage watches and clocks, rare books, maps and manuscripts, and mid-century modern furnishings through its monthly live auctions and Easy Live Auctions platform. The house also handles house clearances and probate valuations across Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. One customer review notes the team was sympathetic and efficient during a difficult clearance of a late relative's home.

Material Culture is holding its November Estates sale, which covers Fine, Folk & Outsider Art alongside antiques, fine furnishings, and decorative arts, with a live showroom auction on Wednesday, November 18, preceded by public exhibition on November 16–17. Consignments for the sale closed October 10, and the house charges a 25% buyer's premium on in-house, phone, and absentee bids.

Upcoming auctions include Travel & Vintage Posters on 28 October, Lalique ft. A Passion for Glass: A Private Collection Part Two on 29 October, and MODERN MADE on 30 October, followed by Fine Asian Works of Art on 6 November, Five Centuries on 11 and 12 November, and London Watches ft. Icons of Time: Patek Philippe on 19 November.